berliner-winter/get_incidents.py
2014-12-08 18:26:25 +01:00

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# This file contains the logic that periodically fetches all pages on the
# Reachout Berlin homepage, checks if they're already in the database and inserts
# them if needed.
import sqlite3
import hashlib
import time
from scraper.scraper import Scraper
encoding = 'UTF-8'
# helper function for benchmarking
current_milli_time = lambda: int(round(time.time() * 1000))
#
# this is where the logic starts:
#
print('Start crawling…')
start_time = current_milli_time()
scraper = Scraper()
articles = scraper.scrape()
time_taken = current_milli_time() - start_time
print('Found {} articles in {} ms'.format(len(articles), time_taken))
conn = sqlite3.connect('violence.db')
c = conn.cursor()
# setup database schema
c.execute('PRAGMA encoding = "{}"'.format(encoding))
c.execute('''
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS incidents (
incident_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
date TEXT,
month_only INTEGER,
place TEXT,
additional_place TEXT,
description TEXT,
hash
);
''')
c.execute('''
CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS incidents_date
ON incidents (date);
''')
c.execute('''
CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS incidents_hash
ON incidents (hash);
''')
# insert articles if necessary
select_query = 'SELECT * FROM incidents WHERE hash=?'
insert_query = '''
INSERT INTO incidents (
date, month_only, place, additional_place, description, hash
) VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?)
'''
print('Starting database work')
for article in articles:
# build a hash so we can more easily find out if we have an article already
h = hashlib.sha256()
h.update(str(article['date']).encode(encoding))
h.update(article['place'].encode(encoding))
h.update((article['additional_place'] or '').encode(encoding))
h.update(article['description'].encode(encoding))
digest = h.digest()
c.execute(select_query, (digest,))
# now if it's not in the database insert it
if (not c.fetchone()):
article_tuple = (
article['date'],
article['month_only'],
article['place'],
article['additional_place'],
article['description'],
digest
)
c.execute(insert_query, article_tuple)
final_time = current_milli_time() - start_time
print('All done in {} ms'.format(final_time))