[tech] Yahoo search term volume reader

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#! /usr/bin/env python

import urllib
import re
import fileinput

class YahooReader:

    # Set the seed data
    LogFileName = 'Yahoo.log'
    SearchTermFile = 'SearchTerms.txt'
    
    def Run(self):
        for line in fileinput.input(self.SearchTermFile):
            line = re.compile('\n').sub('', line).strip()
            self.DoSearchTerm (line)        

    def DoSearchTerm (self, ToDo):

        print ToDo
        
        # -- Read the page
        t = urllib.urlopen(
          'http://inventory.overture.com'
          +'/d/searchinventory/suggestion/?term='
          +re.compile(' ').sub('+', ToDo).strip()).read()

        # -- Look for the exact match, which are highlighted with 
        # -- a different color and bigger font
        p = re.compile (
          '<td>'
         +'<font face=\"verdana,sans-serif\" size=2 color=E8E8E8>'
         +'&nbsp;(?P<SearchVolume>[^<]*)'
         +'<\/td>[\r\n\t]*<td>'
         +'<font face=\"verdana,sans-serif\" size=2 color=E8E8E8>'
         +'&nbsp;(?P<Term>[^<]*)<'
         ).findall(t)

        if not p:
            # -- If no exact match, get the first one
            p = re.compile (
              '<td>'
             +'<font face=\"verdana,sans-serif\" size=1>'
             +'&nbsp;(?P<SearchVolume>[^<]*)'
             +'<\/td>[\r\n\t]*'
             +'<td>&nbsp;'
             +'<a href=.*>'
             +'<font face=\"verdana,sans-serif\" size=1 color=#000000>'
             +'(?P<Term>[^<]*)'
             ).findall(t)

        # -- Write out the result
        logfile = open(self.LogFileName, 'a')
        if p:
            logfile.write(ToDo + '|' + p[0][0] + '|' + p[0][1] + '\n')
        else:
            logfile.write(ToDo + '|-1|<No Result>\n')
        logfile.close()
        
# RUN IT --------------------------------------------
YahooReader().Run();