from scrapy.http import Request from scrapy import log from source import Source from scrapy.selector import Selector from FourmiCrawler.items import Result import re class WikipediaParser(Source): """ Wikipedia scraper for chemical properties This parser parses Wikipedia info boxes (also bordered) to obtain properties and their values. It also returns requests with other external sources which contain information on parsed subject. """ website = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*" __spider = None searched_compounds = [] def __init__(self): Source.__init__(self) def parse(self, response): """ Distributes the above described behaviour """ log.msg('A response from %s just arrived!' % response.url, level=log.DEBUG) sel = Selector(response) compound = sel.xpath('//h1[@id="firstHeading"]//span/text()').extract()[0] # makes sure to use main page if compound in self.searched_compounds: return None else: items = self.parse_infobox(sel) self.searched_compounds.append(compound) return items def parse_infobox(self, sel): """ scrape data from infobox on wikipedia. """ items = [] #be sure to get both chembox (wikipedia template) and drugbox (wikipedia template) to scrape tr_list = sel.xpath('.//table[@class="infobox bordered" or @class="infobox"]//td[not(@colspan)]').\ xpath('normalize-space(string())') prop_names = tr_list[::2] prop_values = tr_list[1::2] for i, prop_name in enumerate(prop_names): item = Result({ 'attribute': prop_name.extract().encode('utf-8'), 'value': prop_values[i].extract().encode('utf-8'), 'source': "Wikipedia", 'reliability': "", 'conditions': "" }) items.append(item) log.msg('Wiki prop: |%s| |%s| |%s|' % (item['attribute'], item['value'], item['source']), level=log.DEBUG) items = filter(lambda a: a['value'] != '', items) # remove items with an empty value item_list = self.clean_items(items) identifiers = self.get_identifiers(sel) #add extra sources to scrape from as requests for i, identifier in enumerate(identifiers): request = None #discard internal wikipedia links if re.match('//en\.wikipedia', identifier): log.msg('Found link to Wikipedia, this is not something to scrape: %s' % identifier, level=log.WARNING) #fix links starting with '//www.' elif re.match('/{2}', identifier): identifier = re.sub("/{2}", "http://", identifier) request = Request(identifier) else: request = Request(identifier) log.msg('New identifier found, request: %s' % identifier, level=log.DEBUG) item_list.append(request) return item_list def new_compound_request(self, compound): return Request(url=self.website[:-1] + compound, callback=self.parse) @staticmethod def clean_items(items): """ clean up properties using regex, makes it possible to split the values from the units """ for item in items: value = item['value'] m = re.search('F;\s(\d+[\.,]?\d*)', value) # clean up numerical Kelvin value (after F) if m: item['value'] = m.group(1) + " K" m = re.match('(\d+[\.,]?\d*)\sJ\sK.+mol', value) # clean up J/K/mol values if m: item['value'] = m.group(1) + " J/K/mol" return items @staticmethod def get_identifiers(sel): """ find external links, named 'Identifiers' to different sources. """ links = sel.xpath('//span[contains(concat(" ",normalize-space(@class)," "),"reflink")]/a' '[contains(concat(" ",normalize-space(@class)," "),"external")]/@href').extract() return links