rahulc93 planetparser 20130716-090952

Source Code

The code for the problem can be found here

Solution

Here is the solution to the problem.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

blog_url = "http://planet.fedoraproject.org/"  # the link from which to read the blog posts and authors
url_open = urllib2.urlopen(blog_url)  # opening the URL of the blog
html_source = url_open.read()  # reading the html source code of the blog page and storing it into 'html_source'
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_source)  # passing "html_doc" into the BeautifulSoup constructor
title_list = soup.find_all("div", class_="blog-entry-title")  # extracting a list of all the titles from the blog
author_list = soup.find_all("div", class_="blog-entry-author")  # extracting a list of all the authors to the blog posts from the blog
for i in range(len(title_list)):  # iterating through the length of title_list
    soup_title = BeautifulSoup(str(title_list[i]))  # passing the i-th element of title_list to BeautifulSoup costructor
    title = soup_title.get_text()  # storing the title of the post in 'title'
    print "Title: ", title  # printing the title of the post
    soup_author = BeautifulSoup(str(author_list[i]))  # passing the i-th element of author_list to BeautifulSoup constructor
    author = soup_author.div.a.get_text()  # storing the author's name in 'author'
    print "Author: ", author  # printing the author's name
    print ""  # printing a newline

Run the program

To run this program, save the code as planetparser.py, and follow the steps

1. Change the file's permissions and make it executable:

   $ chmod +x planetparser.py
   

2. Execute the file:

   $ ./planetparser.py
   

Alternatively, you can also do:

$ python planetparser.py