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crosspost/connectors/boards_api.py

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import requests
import logging
import re
from dto.post import Post
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
HEADERS = {
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ForumScraper/1.0)"
}
class BoardsAPI:
def __init__(self):
self.url = "https://www.boards.ie"
self.source_name = "Boards.ie"
def get_new_category_posts(self, category: str, limit: int = 100) -> list[Post]:
urls = []
current_page = 1
logging.info(f"Fetching posts from category: {category}")
while len(urls) < limit:
url = f"{self.url}/categories/{category}/p{current_page}"
html = self._fetch_page(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
logging.debug(f"Processing page {current_page} for category {category}")
for a in soup.select("a.threadbit-threadlink"):
href = a.get("href")
if href and len(urls) < limit:
urls.append(href)
current_page += 1
logging.debug(f"Fetched {len(urls)} post URLs from category {category}")
# Fetch post details for each URL and create Post objects
posts = []
for post_url in urls:
logging.debug(f"Fetching post details from URL: {post_url}")
html = self._fetch_page(post_url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
# Author
author_tag = soup.select_one(".userinfo-username-title")
author = author_tag.text.strip() if author_tag else None
# Timestamp
timestamp_tag = soup.select_one(".postbit-header")
timestamp = None
if timestamp_tag:
match = re.search(r"\d{2}-\d{2}-\d{4}\s+\d{2}:\d{2}[AP]M", timestamp_tag.get_text())
timestamp = match.group(0) if match else None
# Post ID
post_link = soup.select_one(".post-couunt .post-link")
post_num = post_link.get_text(strip=True) if post_link else None
# Content
content_tag = soup.select_one(".Message.userContent")
content = content_tag.get_text(separator="\n", strip=True) if content_tag else None
# Title
title_tag = soup.select_one("h1.DiscussionTitle") or soup.select_one("h1.PageTitle")
title = title_tag.text.strip() if title_tag else None
post = Post(
id=post_num,
author=author,
title=title,
content=content,
url=post_url,
timestamp=timestamp,
source=self.source_name
)
posts.append(post)
return posts
def _fetch_page(self, url: str) -> str:
response = requests.get(url, headers=HEADERS)
response.raise_for_status()
return response.text