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| -rw-r--r-- | python/sandcrawler/html.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/python/sandcrawler/html.py b/python/sandcrawler/html.py index 8e9eb1f..1893898 100644 --- a/python/sandcrawler/html.py +++ b/python/sandcrawler/html.py @@ -33,10 +33,16 @@ def extract_fulltext_url(html_url, html_body): """ Takes an HTML document (and URL), assumed to be a landing page, and tries to find a fulltext PDF url. + + On error, or if fails to extract a URL, returns an empty dict. """ host_prefix = '/'.join(html_url.split('/')[:3]) - soup = BeautifulSoup(html_body, 'html.parser') + try: + soup = BeautifulSoup(html_body, 'html.parser') + except TypeError as te: + print("{} (url={})".format(te, html_url, file=sys.stderr)) + return dict() ### General Tricks ### |