polyglot.webarchive module ∞

Generate a macOS webarchive given the URL to a webpage

Author:David Young
Date Created:February 24, 2017
class polyglot.webarchive.webarchive(log, settings=False)[source] ∞

*Generate a macOS webarchive given the URL to a webpage *

Key Arguments:
  • log – logger
  • settings – the settings dictionary

Usage:

To setup your logger, settings and database connections, please use the fundamentals package (see tutorial here).

Generate a webarchive docuemnt from a URL, use the following:

from polyglot import webarchive
wa = webarchive(
    log=log,
    settings=settings
)
wa.create(url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen",
          pathToWebarchive=pathToOutputDir + "Volkswagen.webarchive")
create(url, pathToWebarchive)[source] ∞

create the webarchive object

Key Arguments:
  • url – the url of the webpage to generate the webarchive for
  • pathToWebarchive – tthe path to output the the webarchive file to
Return:
  • webarchive – the path to the webarchive (or -1 if the generation fails)

Usage:

See class docstring for usage