"""Functions related to processing articles""" import datetime as dt import re import warnings from typing import Optional, Union from newspaper import Article from wrapt_timeout_decorator.wrapt_timeout_decorator import timeout @timeout(10) def download_article_with_timeout(article: Article): with warnings.catch_warnings(): warnings.simplefilter("ignore", category=DeprecationWarning) article.download() return article def process_article_url(url: str) -> Union[None, dict]: """Process the URL and extract the article. Args: url (str): The URL. Returns: dict or None: The processed article, or None if the URL could not be parsed. """ # Remove GET arguments from the URL stripped_url = re.sub(r'(\?.*"|\/$)', "", url) try: article = Article(stripped_url) article = download_article_with_timeout(article) article.parse() except Exception: # noqa return None # Extract the title and skip URL if it is empty title = article.title if title == "": return None else: title = re.sub("\n+", "\n", title) title = re.sub(" +", " ", title) title = title.strip() # Extract the content and skip URL if it is empty content = article.text.strip() if content == "": return None else: content = re.sub("\n+", "\n", content) content = re.sub(" +", " ", content) content = content.strip() # Extract the authors, the publishing date and the top image authors = list(article.authors) publish_date: Optional[str] if article.publish_date is not None: date = article.publish_date publish_date = dt.datetime.strftime(date, "%Y-%m-%d") else: publish_date = None try: top_image_url = article.top_image except AttributeError: top_image_url = None data_dict = dict( url=stripped_url, title=title, content=content, authors=authors, publish_date=publish_date, top_image_url=top_image_url, ) return data_dict