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ajmoraal · 11-15-2010, 02:53 PM

I'm working on a recipe for a certain site, that has the publication date and author on the article pages only, not on the index page.
So I though I could subclass populate_article_metadata to set this data in the article object like this:

Code:

def populate_article_metadata(self, article, soup, first):
	article.date = soup.find('div', {"class": "date"}).contents[0].strip()
	article.author = soup.find('div', {"class": "author"}).contents[0].strip()

It doesn't work however, as I now get the following error for every article it tries to download:

Code:

3% Article download failed: u'Some article'
Could not fetch link http://www.somedomain.com/somearticle

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

11-15-2010, 02:53 PM	#1
ajmoraal Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: BeBook One 2010	Help for populate_article_metadata I'm working on a recipe for a certain site, that has the publication date and author on the article pages only, not on the index page. So I though I could subclass populate_article_metadata to set this data in the article object like this: Code: def populate_article_metadata(self, article, soup, first): article.date = soup.find('div', {"class": "date"}).contents[0].strip() article.author = soup.find('div', {"class": "author"}).contents[0].strip() It doesn't work however, as I now get the following error for every article it tries to download: Code: 3% Article download failed: u'Some article' Could not fetch link http://www.somedomain.com/somearticle Any idea what I'm doing wrong?