Thanks for this, Mr. fooler. I will run it in parallel with the current python implementation as a kind of redundancy check.
Obet On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 08:56:11 -0400 fooler mail <[email protected]> wrote: > try to evaluate free content delivery network (CDN) available on the > internet to offload your server load and push the contents nearer to > your clients... > > here is the script that might help you to simply things... > > $ cat ngcp.py > #!/bin/env python > > from urllib2 import urlopen > import re > > html = urlopen('http://ngcp.ph/power_situation.asp').read() > > regex = re.compile('.*<td> ?(.+)<\/td>.*') > > data = [ regex.match(line).group(1) for line in html.splitlines() if > regex.match(line)] > > print data > > OUTPUT: > > $ ./ngcp.py > ['System Capacity (MW)', '9581', '1645', '1240', 'System Peak (MW)', > '6956', '1373', '1270', 'Reserve (MW)*', '2351', '272', '0', 'System > Capacity (MW)', '9581', '9581', '9581', '1663', '1662', '1645', > '1112', '1139', '1240', 'System Peak (MW)', '6580', '6531', '6956', > '1150', '1172', '1373', '1181', '1184', '1270', 'Gross Reserve (MW)', > '3001', '3050', '2625', '513', '490', '272', '0', '0', '0'] > > fooler. > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Roberto Verzola > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi pluggers! > > > > I've installed dropbox on Linux. I get responses when I type dropbox > > help, dropbox status, etc. It also says it is NOT running. > > > > When I run dropbox start, it say run "dropbox start -i" to install > > the daemon. I thought this would install dropboxd in memory. > > > > But "dropbox start -i" tells me to download the "Dropbox proprietary > > daemon", and then does a huge file transfer, without telling me > > what is really happening, only a horizontal bar that shows % > > progress (not actual size). And since it took minutes for it to > > reach 1%, I thought these were unusually huge files, for software I > > thought I already installed. So I canceled the transfer. > > > > Any advice? > > > > For context, the solution I am working on (Danny Ching, pls tell me > > if I'm on the right track), is to save the Luzon load curve jpeg > > that I can now properly generate (thanks to people here who helped > > out!), to a directory which will be mirrored on Dropbox, and which > > will then be shared with others interested in mirroring it on their > > servers. > > > > Let me know also if this is a good solution or if there's a simpler > > one. > > > > Here's another problem I already solved but it's an ugly klutz. NGCP > > makes available the daily power supply status of Luzon (also Visayas > > and Mindanao) at the url ngcp.ph/power_status.asp. > > > > I get an html file and buried within it is the information I want > > (Luzon MW capacity for the day). > > > > I'm looking for a more resilient and simpler way. if any, than the > > Python code below. It's a klutz, I know. The slightest change could > > break it. I tried Beautiful Soup but I can't seem to install it > > properly due to dependency problems that couldn't be resolved. > > > > Greetings to all, > > > > Obet > > > > Extracting Luzon MW capacity from the html file returned by > > ngcp.ph/power_status.asp: > > > > > > from HTMLParser import HTMLParser > > > > class HeadingParser(HTMLParser): > > > > inHeading = False > > prevdata = 'xxx' > > done = False > > capacity = [] > > > > def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs): > > if tag == 'td' or tag=='p': > > self.inHeading = True > > > > def handle_data(self, data): > > if self.inHeading: > > ''' > > if not data.strip().isdigit(): print '\n'+ > > data , else: print ', '+data.strip() , > > ''' > > if not self.done: > > self.capacity.append(data.strip()) if 'System Peak' in data: > > self.done = True > > def handle_endtag(self, tag): > > if tag == 'td' or tag=='p': > > self.inHeading = False > > > > > > def daysupply_asof(): > > hParser = HeadingParser() > > f = open('ngcp.dat') > > html = f.read() > > f.close() > > hParser.feed(html) > > when = hParser.capacity[1].replace(',',' ').replace(')', > > '').split() > > return ' '.join([when[7], when[5], when[6], when[3], > > when[2]]), hParser.capacity[3] > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
