pad-bis/pad-bis.py

# Flask application to serve the web pages
from flask import Flask, request, redirect, url_for, jsonify, render_template

# Mediawiki client to interact with the Wiki
import mwclient

# BS to read the html table from the wiki
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# os and dotenv to store the mediawiki credentials in a safe place
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from pathlib import Path

# load the mediawiki credentials from the shared folder
dotenv_path = Path("/var/www/.mw-credentials")
load_dotenv(dotenv_path=dotenv_path)

# load the configuration env
load_dotenv()

# prefix to add /soupboat/padliography to all the routes
class PrefixMiddleware(object):
    def __init__(self, app, prefix=""):
        self.app = app
        self.prefix = prefix

    def __call__(self, environ, start_response):

        if environ["PATH_INFO"].startswith(self.prefix):
            environ["PATH_INFO"] = environ["PATH_INFO"][len(self.prefix):]
            environ["SCRIPT_NAME"] = self.prefix
            return self.app(environ, start_response)
        else:
            start_response("404", [("Content-Type", "text/plain")])
            return ["This url does not belong to the app.".encode()]


# create flask application
app = Flask(__name__)

# Get the URL prefix for the soupboat
# register the middleware to use our base_url as prefix on all the requests
base_url = os.environ.get('BASE_URL', '')
app.wsgi_app = PrefixMiddleware(app.wsgi_app, prefix=base_url)

# Page of the wiki with the pads
padliography = os.environ.get('PAGE', '')


def add_pad(link, title, overview, categories, date):
    '''Add a new pad to the wiki page'''
    
    # 1. Connect to the wiki
    site = mwclient.Site('pzwiki.wdka.nl', path='/mw-mediadesign/')

    # 2. Authenticate using the credential of a bot user registered in the wiki 
    ###  This is necesary the edit the contents of the page
    site.login(
        username=os.environ.get('MW_BOT'),
        password=os.environ.get('MW_KEY')
    )

    # 3. Select the page and get the contents
    page = site.pages[padliography]
    text = page.text()

    # 4. Append the pad as new row in the table of pads
    new_row = f'|-\n| {link} || {title} || {overview} || {categories} || {date} \n|-\n' + '|}'
    text = text.replace('|}', new_row)

    # 5. Apply the edit
    page.edit(text, f'New pad in the {padliography}: {title}')


def get_pads():
    '''Retrieve pads from the wiki'''

    # 1. Connect to the wiki
    site = mwclient.Site('pzwiki.wdka.nl', path='/mw-mediadesign/')

    # 2. Log in using the credential of a bot user registered in the wiki
    site.login(
        username=os.environ.get('MW_BOT'),
        password=os.environ.get('MW_KEY'),

    )

    # 3. Use the MediaWiki API to get the wikitext contents in HTML
    html = site.api('parse', prop='text', page=padliography)

    # 4. Parse the HTML with BeautifulSoup to extract data from the table of pads
    table = BeautifulSoup(html['parse']['text']['*'], features="html.parser").find(
        "table", attrs={"class": "padliography"})

    # 5. Find the headers of the table
    headers = [header.text.lower().strip() for header in table.find_all('th')]
    
    # 6. Create a list of pad, using each header as property of the object pad
    pads = [
        {headers[i]: cell.text.rstrip('\n')
         for i, cell in enumerate(row.find_all('td'))}
        for row in table.find_all('tr')]

    #7. Remove empty pads from the list
    pads = [pad for pad in pads if pad != {}]

    return pads

# Routes

@app.route('/')
def home():
    '''Serve the homepage layout'''
    return render_template('home.html')


@app.route('/api', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def api():
    '''Manage the interaction with the MediaWiki API'''

    # Add a new pad
    if request.method == 'POST':
        link = request.json.get('link', None)
        title = request.json.get('title', None)
        overview = request.json.get('overview', '')
        categories = request.json.get('categories', '')
        date = request.json.get('date', None)

        add_pad(link, title, overview, categories, date)
        redirect(url_for('home'))

    # Return the pad list
    response = jsonify({
        'page': padliography,
        'pads': get_pads()
    })
    response.headers.add('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')

    return response



# Get the port and mount the app
port = os.environ.get('FLASK_RUN_PORT', '')
app.run(port=port)