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Utils - web¤

get_page_content(link, session=None, session_query_configs=None, method='GET', data=None) ¤

Download page and save content

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
link str

link to get content from

 required
session Optional[requests.Session]

requests session object, defaults to a new session

 None
session_query_configs Optional[dict]

session query configs, defaults to get_session_query_configs

 None
method Optional[str]

method to use, defaults to "GET"

 'GET'
data Optional[dict]

data to send with the request, defaults to None

 None

Returns:

Type Description

page content data
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def get_page_content(
    link: str,
    session: Optional[requests.Session] = None,
    session_query_configs: Optional[dict] = None,
    method: Optional[str] = "GET",
    data: Optional[dict] = None,
):
    """Download page and save content

    :param link: link to get content from
    :param session: requests session object, defaults to a new session
    :param session_query_configs: session query configs, defaults to get_session_query_configs
    :param method: method to use, defaults to "GET"
    :param data: data to send with the request, defaults to None
    :return: page content data
    """

    if not session_query_configs:
        session_query_configs = get_session_query_configs()

    if not session:
        session = get_session(
            retry_params=None,
            session=None,
        )
    if method == "GET":
        content = session.get(link, **session_query_configs)
    elif method == "POST":
        if data is None:
            data = {}
        content = session.post(link, data=data, **session_query_configs)

    status = content.status_code

    return {"status": status, "content": content}

get_random_user_agent(browsers=None) ¤

get_random_user_agent returns a random user agent. We provide two predefined browers, chrome and firefox.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
browsers Optional[Union[str, list]]

which brower to be used, defaults to ["chrome", "firefox"]

 None

Returns:

Type Description
dict

dictionary for requests module to consude as {'User-Agent': "blabla"}
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def get_random_user_agent(browsers: Optional[Union[str, list]] = None) -> dict:
    """
    get_random_user_agent returns a random user agent.
    We provide two predefined browers, chrome and firefox.

    :param browsers: which brower to be used, defaults to ["chrome", "firefox"]
    :return: dictionary for requests module to consude as {'User-Agent': "blabla"}
    """

    if browsers is None:
        browsers = ["chrome", "firefox"]
    if isinstance(browsers, str):
        browsers = [browsers]

    chrome_user_agents = [
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.90 Safari/537.36",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.90 Safari/537.36",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.90 Safari/537.36",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.157 Safari/537.36",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.133 Safari/537.36",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.133 Safari/537.36",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36",
    ]
    firefox_user_agents = [
        "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1)",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/5.0)",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)",
        "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0)",
        "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)",
    ]

    user_agents_dict = {"chrome": chrome_user_agents, "firefox": firefox_user_agents}

    # error if specified browser is not in the list
    if set(browsers) - set(user_agents_dict.keys()):
        logger.error(f"Unknown browser: {set(browsers) - set(user_agents_dict.keys())}")

    user_agent_list = sum([user_agents_dict[browser] for browser in browsers], [])

    return {"User-Agent": random.choice(user_agent_list)}

get_session(retry_params={'retries': 5, 'backoff_factor': 0.3, 'status_forcelist': (500, 502, 504)}, session=None) ¤

get_session prepares a session object.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
retry_params Optional[dict]

the rules to retry, defaults to {"retries": 5, "backoff_factor": 0.3, "status_forcelist": (500, 502, 504)}

 {'retries': 5, 'backoff_factor': 0.3, 'status_forcelist': (500, 502, 504)}
session Optional[requests.Session]

a requests session object to be used to query, defaults to None

 None

Returns:

Type Description
requests.Session

a requests session object
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def get_session(
    retry_params: Optional[dict] = {
        "retries": 5,
        "backoff_factor": 0.3,
        "status_forcelist": (500, 502, 504),
    },
    session: Optional[requests.Session] = None,
) -> requests.Session:
    """
    get_session prepares a session object.

    :param retry_params: the rules to retry, defaults to {"retries": 5, "backoff_factor": 0.3, "status_forcelist": (500, 502, 504)}
    :param session: a requests session object to be used to query, defaults to None
    :return: a requests session object
    """

    if retry_params is None:
        retry_params = {
            "retries": 5,
            "backoff_factor": 0.3,
            "status_forcelist": (500, 502, 504),
        }

    if session is None:
        session = requests.Session()

    retry = Retry(
        total=retry_params.get("retries"),
        read=retry_params.get("retries"),
        connect=retry_params.get("retries"),
        backoff_factor=retry_params.get("backoff_factor"),
        status_forcelist=retry_params.get("status_forcelist"),
    )

    adapter = HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retry)
    session.mount("http://", adapter)
    session.mount("https://", adapter)

    return session

get_session_query_configs(headers=None, timeout=(5, 14), proxies={}, cookies={'language': 'en'}) ¤

get_session_query_configs creates a session config dictionary for session to use. These are the keyword arguments of the session get or post methods. Proxies can be set by providing a dictionary of the form 

{
    'http': some super_proxy_url,
    'https': some super_proxy_url,
}

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
headers Optional[dict]

header of the method such as use agent, defaults to random user agent from get_random_user_agent

 None
timeout Optional[list]

timeout strategy, defaults to (5, 14)

 (5, 14)
proxies Optional[dict]

proxy configs, defaults to {}

 {}
cookies Optional[dict]

cookie configs, defaults to {"language": "en"}

 {'language': 'en'}

Returns:

Type Description
dict

dictionary of session configs for session methods, e.g., get, to use.
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def get_session_query_configs(
    headers: Optional[dict] = None,
    timeout: Optional[list] = (5, 14),
    proxies: Optional[dict] = {},
    cookies: Optional[dict] = {"language": "en"},
) -> dict:
    """
    get_session_query_configs creates a session config dictionary for session to use. These are the keyword arguments of the session get or post methods.
    Proxies can be set by providing a dictionary of the form
    ```python
    {
        'http': some super_proxy_url,
        'https': some super_proxy_url,
    }
    ```
    :param headers: header of the method such as use agent, defaults to random user agent from get_random_user_agent
    :param timeout: timeout strategy, defaults to (5, 14)
    :param proxies: proxy configs, defaults to {}
    :param cookies: cookie configs, defaults to {"language": "en"}
    :return: dictionary of session configs for session methods, e.g., get, to use.
    """

    if cookies is None:
        cookies = {"language": "en"}

    if headers is None:
        headers = get_random_user_agent()

    if timeout is None:
        timeout = (5, 14)

    if proxies is None:
        proxies = {}

    return dict(headers=headers, proxies=proxies, cookies=cookies)