python-ox/README.md

python-ox - the web in a dict

Depends:

• python >= 2.7 or python3 >= 3.4
• python-chardet (http://chardet.feedparser.org/)
• python-feedparser (http://www.feedparser.org/)
• python-lxml (http://codespeak.net/lxml/) [optional]
• django (otherwise dates < 1900 are not supported) [optional]

Usage:

import ox

data = ox.cache.read_url('http:/...')
text = ox.strip_tags(data)
ox.normalize_newlines(text)
ox.format_bytes(len(data))

ox.format_bytes(1234567890)
'1.15 GB'

import ox.web.imdb
imdbId = ox.web.imdb.guess('The Matrix')
info = ox.web.imdb.Imdb(imdbId)
info['year']
1999

Install:

python setup.py install

Cookies:

some ox.web modules require user accont information or cookies to work, those are saved in ~/.ox/auth.json, most basic form looks like this:

{
    "key": "value"
}

Tests:

nosetests --with-doctest ox nosetests3 --with-doctest ox