I love Quora. It's a great site and community. But I started getting a bit concerned how much writing I was doing there which was (potentially) disappearing inside their garden and not part of the body of thinking I'm building up on ThoughtStorms (or even my blogs).
Fortunately, I discovered Quora has an RSS feed of my answers, so I can save them to my local machine. (At some point I'll think about how to integrate them into ThoughtStorms; should I just make a page for each one?)
Anyway here's the script (powered by a lot of Python batteries.)
And this turns the files back into a handy HTML page.
Fortunately, I discovered Quora has an RSS feed of my answers, so I can save them to my local machine. (At some point I'll think about how to integrate them into ThoughtStorms; should I just make a page for each one?)
Anyway here's the script (powered by a lot of Python batteries.)
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| import feedparser | |
| import hashlib | |
| import json | |
| from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
| d = feedparser.parse("http://www.quora.com/YOUR-QUORA-NAME/answers/rss") | |
| for e in d["entries"] : | |
| title = e["title"] | |
| summary = e["summary"] | |
| h = hashlib.sha224(title).hexdigest() | |
| summary = summary.replace("<br />","__LINEBREAK__") | |
| soup = BeautifulSoup(summary) | |
| answer = soup.get_text()[11:] | |
| answer = answer[:-21] | |
| answer = answer.replace("__LINEBREAK__","\n") | |
| answer = answer.strip() | |
| print title | |
| print answer | |
| j = {"question":title,"answer":answer,"link":e["link"]} | |
| f=open(h+".quora.txt",'w') | |
| f.write(json.dumps(j)) | |
| f.close() | |
And this turns the files back into a handy HTML page.
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| from os import listdir | |
| from os.path import isfile, join | |
| onlyfiles = [ f for f in listdir(".") if isfile(join("",f)) ] | |
| import json | |
| print """ | |
| <html> | |
| <style> | |
| body { | |
| font-family:sans; | |
| color:#333333; | |
| padding:3px; | |
| } | |
| dt { | |
| top-margin:4px; | |
| } | |
| </style> | |
| <body> | |
| <h2>Quora Answers by MY NAME</h2> | |
| <dl> | |
| """ | |
| for fn in onlyfiles : | |
| if fn[-3:] == "txt": | |
| f = open(fn) | |
| entry = json.loads(f.read()) | |
| print "<dt>%s <a href='%s'>Link</a></dt>" % (entry["question"].encode("utf-8"), entry["link"].encode("utf-8")) | |
| answer = entry["answer"].encode("utf-8") | |
| answer = answer.replace("\n\n","<br/>") | |
| print "<dd>%s</dd>" % answer | |
| print """ | |
| </dl> | |
| </body> | |
| </html>""" |
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