is it possible to make that scraper act in extra pages when the webpage have it?

Question

from twill.commands import *
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from urllib import urlopen
import urllib2

with open('urls.txt') as inf:
    urls = (line.strip() for line in inf)
    for url in urls:
        try:
            urllib2.urlopen(url)
        except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
            print e
        site = urlopen(url)   
        soup = BeautifulSoup(site)
        for td in soup.find_all('td', {'class': 'subjectCell'}):
            print td.find('a').text

my code opens only a single page from each url of the file, sometimes there are more pages, in that case the pattern for the next pages would be &page=x

here are those pages i'm talking about:

http://www.last.fm/user/TheBladeRunner_/library/tags?tag=long+track http://www.last.fm/user/TheBladeRunner_/library/tags?tag=long+track&page=7

Answer 1

You could read the href attribute from the next_page link and add it to your urls list (yes, you should change your tuple to a list). It could be something like this:

from twill.commands import *
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from urllib import urlopen
import urllib2
import urlparse

with open('urls.txt') as inf:
    urls = [line.strip() for line in inf]
    for url in urls:
        try:
            urllib2.urlopen(url)
        except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
            print e
        site = urlopen(url)   
        soup = BeautifulSoup(site)
        for td in soup.find_all('td', {'class': 'subjectCell'}):
            print td.find('a').text

        next_page = soup.find_all('a', {'class': 'nextlink'}):
        if next_page:
            next_page = next_page[0]
            urls.append(urlparse.urljoin(url, next_page['href']))