Adding system to check if article is already known

crawler.py

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class Crawler:
 	def __init__(self, base_url):
 		self.base_url = base_url
 
-	def check_for_new_articles(self) -> [Article]:
+	def check_for_new_yaa_articles(self) -> [Article]:
 		source = self.__download_url__(self.base_url)
 		article_urls = self.__extract_article_urls__(source)
 

main.py

@@ -1,7 +1,40 @@
+import sql
 from crawler import Crawler
 
+
+def __check_and_insert_in_database__(conn, article) -> bool:
+	"""
+	Checks, if the article is already known. If not, inserts it into the db.
+	:param conn: SQL connection
+	:param article: The article to check / insert
+	:return: If the article is already known
+	"""
+	cur = conn.cursor()
+	cur.execute('SELECT article_id FROM yaa_articles WHERE url = %s', article.url)
+
+	res = cur.fetchall()
+
+	if len(res) > 0:
+		cur.close()
+		return True
+	else:
+		cur.execute('INSERT INTO yaa_articles (title, summary, url, image_url) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s)',
+					(article.title, article.summary, article.url, article.image_url))
+		conn.commit()
+		cur.close()
+		return False
+
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
 	crawl = Crawler('https://www.ka-news.de')
+	conn = sql.get_connection()
 
-	articles = crawl.check_for_new_articles()
-	print(articles)
+	articles = crawl.check_for_new_yaa_articles()
+
+	for article in articles:
+		if not __check_and_insert_in_database__(conn, article):
+			print('New!')
+		else:
+			print('Old!')
+
+	conn.close()

requirements.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 urllib3
 requests
 bs4
+pymysql

sql.py

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import logging
+import os
+
+import pymysql as pymysql
+
+
+def get_connection() -> pymysql.Connection:
+	"""
+		Get a connection to SQL.
+		This function is used on the vServer for local testing
+		@return: pymysql connection object
+		"""
+	try:
+		if os.environ.get('IS_VSERVER') == 'true':
+			conn = pymysql.connect(
+				user=os.environ['vServer_SQL_User'],
+				password=os.environ['vServer_SQL_Password'],
+				host='localhost',
+				port=3306,
+				database='ka-news-yaa-crawler'
+			)
+		else:
+			conn = pymysql.connect(
+				user=os.environ['DB_USER'],
+				password=os.environ['DB_PASSWORD'],
+				host=os.environ['DB_HOST'],
+				port=3306,
+				database='ka-news-yaa-crawler'
+			)
+
+		return conn
+	except pymysql.Error as e:
+		logging.error('SQL Connection error: %s', e)
+		return None