import requests import re # import regular expressions to remove stray numbers in string that might interfere with date finding import json # import json to read project info stored in json file from project import Project from shared import CSC_MIRROR import datefinder # another date finding library class macports(Project): """macports class""" # checker: gets the timestamp of the file inside the directory at the specified URL and returns it as a string @staticmethod def checker(directory_URL, file_name): page = requests.get(directory_URL).text file_index = page.find(file_name) # print(page) # remove stray numbers (file size numbers in particular) that might interfere with date finding segment_clean = re.sub(r'\s\d+\s', ' ', page[file_index:]) # removes numbers for size segment_clean = re.sub(r'\s\d+\w*\s', ' ', page[file_index:]) # removes numbers + size unit. e.x. 50kb # print(segment_clean) # finds the dates in the segment after the file name # notes: a generator will be returned by the datefinder module. I'm typecasting it to a list. Please read the note of caution provided at the bottom. matches = list(datefinder.find_dates(segment_clean)) # print(matches[0]) return matches[0] @classmethod def check(cls, data, project, current_time): """Check if project packages are up-to-date""" csc_url = CSC_MIRROR + data[project]["csc"] upstream_url = data[project]["upstream"] file_name = data[project]["file"] return cls.checker(csc_url, file_name) == cls.checker(upstream_url, file_name)