fixed scraping bug

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/piccast/feeds/management/commands/scrape_feeds.py b/piccast/feeds/management/commands/scrape_feeds.py
index 6a85aef..bfa9bfc 100644
--- a/piccast/feeds/management/commands/scrape_feeds.py
+++ b/piccast/feeds/management/commands/scrape_feeds.py
@@ -170,9 +170,10 @@ def scrape_feed(feed_shortname):
 
         # Ok, this is where we split out and do custom, per-site processing
         if(feed_shortname == u"acidcow"):
-            p.description = strip_tags(pset['description'])
-            if(p.description.starts_with(u"Simlar posts:"):
-                p.description = None
+            if(len(pset['description']) > 0):
+                p.description = strip_tags(pset['description'])
+                if(p.description.startswith(u"Similar posts:")):
+                    p.description = None
             p.save()
             print "Great, saved: " + p.title + " (id=" + str(p.id) + ")"
             scrape_pics_acidcow(p)
@@ -203,8 +204,9 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
         for shortname in args:
             try:
                 scrape_feed(shortname)
-            except Exception:
-                sys.stderr.write("Error scraping " + shortname + "\n")
+            except Exception as e:
+                sys.stderr.write("Error scraping " + shortname + ":\n")
+                sys.stderr.write(str(e) + "\n")
 
         sys.stdout.flush()
         sys.stdout.write('Done scraping feeds.\n')