User talk:Paddy3118
RC_vanity_search.py
Sad, but I like to see how my tasks are faring over time:
<lang python> Rosetta Code Vanity search:
How many new pages has someone created?
import urllib, re
user = 'Paddy3118'
site = 'http://www.rosettacode.org' nextpage = site + '/wiki/Special:Contributions/' + user nextpage_re = re.compile(
r'<a href="([^"]+)" title="[^"]+" rel="next">older ')
newpages = [] pagecount = 0 while nextpage:
page = urllib.urlopen(nextpage)
pagecount +=1
nextpage =
for line in page:
if not nextpage:
# Search for URL to next page of results for download
nextpage_match = re.search(nextpage_re, line)
if nextpage_match:
nextpage = (site + nextpage_match.groups()[0]).replace('&', '&')
#print nextpage
npline=line
if '' in line:
# extract N page name from title
newpages.append(line.partition(' title="')[2].partition('"')[0])
page.close()
nontalk = [p for p in newpages if not ':' in p]
print "User: %s has created %i new pages of which %i were not Talk: pages, from approx %i edits" % (
user, len(newpages), len(nontalk), pagecount*50 )
print "New pages created, in order, are:\n ", print "\n ".join(nontalk[::-1])
nextpage = site + '/w/index.php?title=Special:PopularPages'
nextpage_re = re.compile(
r'<a href="([^"]+)" class="mw-nextlink">next ')
data_re = re.compile(
r'^
User: Paddy3118 has created 52 new pages of which 27 were not Talk: pages, from approx 500 edits New pages created, in order, are: Spiral Monty Hall simulation Web Scraping Sequence of Non-squares Anagrams Max Licenses In Use One dimensional cellular automata Conway's Game of Life Data Munging Data Munging 2 Column Aligner Probabilistic Choice Knapsack Problem Yuletide Holiday Common number base conversions Octal Integer literals Command Line Interpreter First-class functions Y combinator Functional Composition Exceptions Through Nested Calls Look-and-say sequence Mutual Recursion Bulls and Cows Testing a Function Select Highest page Ranks for user pages: RANK VIEWS TITLE 102 2442 Monty Hall simulation 106 2294 Knapsack Problem 109 2234 Conway's Game of Life 141 1798 Anagrams 214 1131 Web Scraping 218 1087 Max Licenses In Use 230 1022 Spiral 231 997 One dimensional cellular automata 257 825 Sequence of Non-squares 258 823 Yuletide Holiday 274 762 Column Aligner 314 645 Data Munging 2 318 627 Data Munging 320 623 Probabilistic Choice 322 620 Y combinator 323 614 First-class functions 374 494 Command Line Interpreter 385 446 Functional Composition 403 412 Integer literals 412 404 Mutual Recursion 417 388 Bulls and Cows 438 336 Look-and-say sequence 439 336 Common number base conversions 450 293 Octal 468 250 Exceptions Through Nested Calls 661 75 Select 677 56 Testing a Function >>>