Add ability to exclude articles by URL

download.py

@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ import tomli
 import gptc
 import bs4
 
+
+def matches(string, checks):
+    for check in checks:
+        if check["type"] == "startswith" and string.startswith(check["pattern"]):
+            return True
+    return False
+
+
 with open("sources.toml", "rb") as f:
     sources = tomli.load(f)
 
@@ -38,37 +46,43 @@ try:
         entries = [
             entry
             for entry in feedparser.parse(url)["entries"]
-            if not entry["link"] in known
+            if not entry["link"] in known and not matches(entry["link"], config.get("exclude", []))
         ]
         print(f"Fetched feed. Found {len(entries)} new articles.")
 
         if contains_articles:
             for entry in entries:
-                print(f"Saving {entry['link']}")
-                con.execute(
-                    "INSERT INTO articles VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?);",
-                    (
-                        name,
-                        category,
-                        entry["link"],
-                        bs4.BeautifulSoup(
-                            entry["content"][0]["value"], features="lxml"
-                        ).text,
-                    ),
-                )
+                try:
+                    print(f"Saving {entry['link']}")
+                    con.execute(
+                        "INSERT INTO articles VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?);",
+                        (
+                            name,
+                            category,
+                            entry["link"],
+                            bs4.BeautifulSoup(
+                                entry["content"][0]["value"], features="lxml"
+                            ).text,
+                        ),
+                    )
+                except KeyError:
+                    print("Not enough information. Skipping.")
         else:
             for entry in entries:
-                print(f"Downloading {entry['link']}...")
-                con.execute(
-                    "INSERT INTO articles VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?);",
-                    (
-                        name,
-                        category,
-                        entry["link"],
-                        g.extract(entry["link"]).cleaned_text,
-                    ),
-                )
-                print(f"Done downloading.")
+                try:
+                    print(f"Downloading {entry['link']}...")
+                    con.execute(
+                        "INSERT INTO articles VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?);",
+                        (
+                            name,
+                            category,
+                            entry["link"],
+                            g.extract(entry["link"]).cleaned_text,
+                        ),
+                    )
+                    print(f"Done downloading.")
+                except KeyError:
+                    print("Not enough information. Skipping.")
 finally:
     con.commit()
 

sources.toml

@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ contains_articles=true
 feed="https://nypost.com/feed"
 category="right"
 contains_articles=false
+exclude=[
+    { type="startswith", pattern="https://pagesix.com" },
+    { type="startswith", pattern="https://decider.com" },
+]
 
 [federalist]
 feed="https://thefederalist.com/feed"