Class: WLSearchScraper

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/wlsearchscraper.rb

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize(searchterms) ⇒ WLSearchScraper

Returns a new instance of WLSearchScraper.



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# File 'lib/wlsearchscraper.rb', line 6

def initialize(searchterms)
  @searchterms = searchterms
  @resultlist = Array.new
end

Instance Method Details

#cableParser(url) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/wlsearchscraper.rb', line 25

def cableParser(url)
  cablehash = Hash.new
  html = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url))
  
  # Go through and get all the metadata and content
  html.css("td").each do |t|
    a = t.css("a")
    if !(a.empty?) && (a[0]["title"] == "Date")
      cablehash[:date] = t.css("div[2]").text
    elsif !(a.empty?) && (a[0]["title"] == "Canonical ID")
      cablehash[:id] = t.css("div[2]").text
    elsif !(a.empty?) && (a[0]["title"] == "Original Classification")
      cablehash[:original_classification] = t.css("div[2]").text
    elsif !(a.empty?) && (a[0]["title"] == "Current Classification")
      cablehash[:current_classification] = t.css("div[2]").text
    elsif !(a.empty?) && (a[0]["title"] == "Handling Restrictions")
      cablehash[:handling_restrictions] = t.css("div[2]").text
    elsif !(a.empty?) && (a[0]["title"] == "Character Count")
      cablehash[:character_count] = t.css("div[2]").text
    elsif !(a.empty?) && (a[0]["title"] == "Executive Order")
      cablehash[:executive_order] = t.css("div[2]").text
    elsif !(a.empty?) && (a[0]["title"] == "Locator")
      cablehash[:locator] = t.css("div[2]").text
    elsif !(a.empty?) && (a[0]["title"] == "TAGS")
      cablehash[:tags] = t.css("div[2]").text
    elsif !(a.empty?) && (a[0]["title"] == "Concepts")
      cablehash[:concepts] = t.css("div[2]").text
    elsif !(a.empty?) && (a[0]["title"] == "Enclosure")
      cablehash[:enclosure] = t.css("div[2]").text
    elsif !(a.empty?) && (a[0]["title"] == "Type")
      cablehash[:type] = t.css("div[2]").text
    elsif !(a.empty?) && (a[0]["title"] == "Office Origin")
      cablehash[:office_origin] = t.css("div[2]").text
    elsif !(a.empty?) && (a[0]["title"] == "Office Action")
      cablehash[:office_action] = t.css("div[2]").text
    elsif !(a.empty?) && (a[0]["title"] == "Archive Status")
      cablehash[:archive_status] = t.css("div[2]").text
    elsif !(a.empty?) && (a[0]["title"] == "From")
      cablehash[:from] = t.css("div[2]").text
    elsif !(a.empty?) && (a[0]["title"] == "Markings")
      cablehash[:markings] = t.css("div[2]").text
    elsif !(a.empty?) && (a[0]["title"] == "To")
      to = t.css("div[2]").text
      splitto = to.split(" | ")
      splitarray = Array.new
      splitto.each do |s|
        splitarray.push(s.strip)
      end
      cablehash[:to] = splitarray
    elsif !(a.empty?) && (a[0]["title"] == "Linked documents or other documents with the same ID")
      cablehash[:linked_docs] = t.css("div[2]").text
    end
  end

  # Get cable content
  contentcount = 0
  html.css("div").each do |d|
   if d["class"] == "text-content"
     contentcount += 1
     if contentcount == 2
       cablehash[:content] = d.text
     end
   end
  end
  
  return cablehash
end

#scrape ⇒ Object

Returns array of document URLs matching search terms



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# File 'lib/wlsearchscraper.rb', line 12

def scrape
  @searchterms.gsub!(" ", "+")
  url = "https://search.wikileaks.org/advanced?q=" + @searchterms + "&exclude_words=&words_title_only=&words_content_only=&publication_type[]=3"
  html = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url))

  html.css("h4").each do |h|
    href = h.css("a")[0]["href"]
    @resultlist.push(cableParser(href))
  end
  
  return JSON.pretty_generate(@resultlist)
end