Minor improvements: 1) encoding of article description and article title, 2) HTML sanitization.

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/feedgetter.py b/feedgetter.py
index f2d3f290..54183b08 100755
--- a/feedgetter.py
+++ b/feedgetter.py
@@ -122,21 +122,21 @@ class FeedGetter(object):
             description = ""
             try:
                 # article content
-                description = article.content[0].value.encode('utf-8')
+                description = article.content[0].value
             except AttributeError:
                 try:
                     # article description
-                    description = article.description.encode('utf-8')
+                    description = article.description
                 except Exception, e:
                     description = ""
             description = str(BeautifulSoup(description))
-            title = str(BeautifulSoup(article.title.encode('utf-8')))
+            article_title = str(BeautifulSoup(article.title))
 
             try:
                 # try. Will only success if the article is not already in the data base
                 self.c.execute('insert into articles values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)', (\
                         datetime(*article.updated_parsed[:6]), \
-                        title, \
+                        article_title, \
                         article.link.encode('utf-8'), \
                         description, \
                         "0", \
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ class FeedGetter(object):
                     try:
                         threading.Thread(None, utils.send_mail, None, (utils.mail_from, utils.mail_to, \
                                             a_feed.feed.title.encode('utf-8'), \
-                                            utils.clear_string(article.title.encode('utf-8')), description) \
+                                            article_title, description) \
                                         ).start()
                     except Exception, e:
                         # SMTP acces denied, to many SMTP connections, etc.
@@ -166,4 +166,4 @@ class FeedGetter(object):
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     # Point of entry in execution mode
     feed_getter = FeedGetter()
-    feed_getter.retrieve_feed()
\ No newline at end of file
+    feed_getter.retrieve_feed()
diff --git a/pyAggr3g470r.py b/pyAggr3g470r.py
index 67beea86..3e26326b 100755
--- a/pyAggr3g470r.py
+++ b/pyAggr3g470r.py
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ class Root:
                 # Descrition for the CSS ToolTips
                 article_content = utils.clear_string(article.article_description)
                 if article_content:
-                    description = " ".join(article_content[:500].split(' ')[:-1])
+                    description = " ".join(article_content.split(' ')[:55])
                     description = str(BeautifulSoup(description))
                 else:
                     description = "No description."