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WikiLeaks Cablegate Count

Today, I wrote a small script to get the count of released WikiLeaks cables. Actually, it's extremely small. Just two lines of code.

import urllib, piksemel, re

wleaks = int(re.search(r"(\d+) / [0-9,]+", piksemel.parseString(urllib.urlopen("http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/index.html").read()).getTag("body").getTag("div").getTag("div").getTag("a").getTag("p").toString()).groups()[0])

Generally, I don't code like this. But I wanted to write it quick (5 minutes?) and keep it short. It uses piksemel to parse the page.

Enjoy!

How to install piksemel module

piksemel is a easy to use python XML parser, based on iksemel.

Not: If you're using Pardus, piksemel is preinstalled on your system.

Not: If you're using Windows, before you continue make sure you've already installed mingw32 to your system and its directory is included in PATH.

Steps for Linux users:

• Download the package from http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~bahadir/piksemel/piksemel-1.3.1.tar.gz and unpack it.
• Run:

  python setup.py build

• Run:

  python setup.py install

Steps for Windows users:

• Download the package from http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~bahadir/piksemel/piksemel-1.3.1.tar.gz and unpack it.
• In piksemel-1.3.1 directory, run:

  setup.py bdist_wininst build --compiler=mingw32

• Run the installer file under the piksemel-1.3.1/dist directory.