cache read_url_utf8 too

scrapeit/imdb.py

@@ -11,13 +11,35 @@ from elementtree.ElementTree import parse, tostring
 from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
 
 from google import google
-from utils import stripTags, read_url_utf8, htmldecode
+from utils import stripTags, htmldecode
 
 import utils
 
+cache_base = "/var/cache/scrapeit/cache/"
+
+def read_url_utf8(url):
+  path = os.path.join(cache_base, url.replace('http://',''))
+  if path.endswith('/'):
+    path = "%sindex.html" % path
+  if os.path.isdir(path):
+    path = "%s/index.html" % path
+  if os.path.exists(path):
+    f = open(path)
+    data = f.read()
+    f.close()
+    return data
+  else:
+    data = utils.read_url_utf8(url)
+    folder = os.path.dirname(path)
+    if not os.path.exists(folder):
+      os.makedirs(folder)
+    f = open(path, 'w')
+    f.write(data)
+    f.close()
+    return data
+
 def read_url(url):
-  base = "/var/cache/scrapeit/cache/"
-  path = os.path.join(base, url.replace('http://',''))
+  path = os.path.join(cache_base, url.replace('http://',''))
   if path.endswith('/'):
     path = "%sindex.html" % path
   if os.path.isdir(path):