Update bookmarks from file

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Author Raymond Wagner
Description Imports a list of bookmarks from the HTML files generated by Firefox's export utility.
Supports Version24.png  


This script will flush the existing list of websites from the MythBrowser, and supplement it with websites from an HTML file, as generated by Firefox's export utility. It accepts a filename on the command line, otherwise using '~/bookmarks.html'.


PythonIcon.png bookmarks.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
#----------------------

import os
import sys
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
try:
    from MythTV import MythDB
    from MythTV.database import DBDataWrite
except:
    print 'ERROR: The python bindings are not installed'
    sys.exit(-1)

class Bookmark( DBDataWrite ):
    _table = 'websites'
    _defaults = {'id':None, 'category':u'', 'name':u'', 'url':u''}
    _schema_value = 'BrowserDBSchemaVer'
    _schema_local = 1002
    _schema_name = 'MythBrowser'

class Parser( HTMLParser ):
    def __init__(self):
        HTMLParser.__init__(self)
        self.stack = []
    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        if tag == 'h3':
            # new category, push to stack
            self.stack.append('h3')
        elif not len(self.stack):
            # no categories, refuse links
            return
        elif tag == 'a':
            # new bookmark, push to stack
            d = dict(attrs)
            self.stack.append(d['href'])
            self.stack.append('a')
    def handle_endtag(self, tag):
        if not len(self.stack):
            # empty stack, do nothing
            return
        elif tag == 'dl':
            # drop out of category, pop from stack
            self.stack.pop()
    def handle_data(self, data):
        if not len(self.stack):
            # empty stack, do nothing
            return
        elif self.stack[-1] == 'h3':
            # new category name, swap on stack
            self.stack[-1] = data
        elif self.stack[-1] == 'a':
            # new link name, swap on stack
            self.stack[-1] = data
            # create new bookmark in database
            b = Bookmark(db=db)
            b.name = self.stack.pop()
            b.url = self.stack.pop()
            b.category = self.stack[-1]
            b.create()

# select file
bookmark_file = '~/bookmarks.html'
if len(sys.argv) == 2:
    bookmark_file = sys.argv[1]

# check if file exists
if not os.access(os.path.expanduser(bookmark_file), os.F_OK):
    print 'ERROR: bookmark file could not be found'
    sys.exit(-1)

# connect to database
try:
    db = MythDB()
except:
    print 'ERROR: database could not be accessed'
    sys.exit(-1)

# flush old entries and reset counter
c = db.cursor()
c.execute("""TRUNCATE TABLE websites""")
c.close()

# read in file
fp = open(os.path.expanduser(bookmark_file))
data = ''.join(fp.readlines())
fp.close()

# parse file for bookmarks
parser = Parser()
parser.feed(data)