The date of modification of articles is now used to detect changes.

3 files changed, 29 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/src/crawler/classic_crawler.py b/src/crawler/classic_crawler.py
index b21a7859..1628852f 100644
--- a/src/crawler/classic_crawler.py
+++ b/src/crawler/classic_crawler.py
@@ -122,20 +122,28 @@ async def insert_database(user, feed):
                         **extract_id(article))
         exist = existing_article_req.count() != 0
         if exist:
-            existing_article = existing_article_req.first()
-            is_updated = False
+            # if the article has been already retrieved, we only update
+            # the content or the title
             logger.debug("Article %r (%r) already in the database.",
                          article['title'], article['link'])
-            content = get_article_content(article)
-            if existing_article.title != article['title']:
-                existing_article.title = article['title']
-                is_updated = True
-            if existing_article.content != content:
-                existing_article.content = content
-                existing_article.readed = False
-                is_updated = True
-            if is_updated:
-                art_contr.update({'entry_id': existing_article.entry_id}, existing_article.dump())
+            existing_article = existing_article_req.first()
+            new_updated_date = None
+            try:
+                new_updated_date = dateutil.parser.parse(article['updated'])
+            except Exception as e:
+                print(e)#new_updated_date = existing_article.date
+            if existing_article.updated_date.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S') != \
+                                new_updated_date.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S'):
+                existing_article.updated_date = \
+                                        new_updated_date.replace(tzinfo=None)
+                if existing_article.title != article['title']:
+                    existing_article.title = article['title']
+                content = get_article_content(article)
+                if existing_article.content != content:
+                    existing_article.content = content
+                    existing_article.readed = False
+                art_contr.update({'entry_id': existing_article.entry_id},
+                                                        existing_article.dump())
             continue
         article = construct_article(article, feed)
         try:
diff --git a/src/web/lib/article_utils.py b/src/web/lib/article_utils.py
index 328c27ab..176f6a98 100644
--- a/src/web/lib/article_utils.py
+++ b/src/web/lib/article_utils.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ def construct_article(entry, feed):
         feed = feed.dump()
     "Safe method to transorm a feedparser entry into an article"
     now = datetime.now()
-    date = None
+    date, updated_date = None, None
     for date_key in ('published', 'updated'):
         if entry.get(date_key):
             try:
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ def construct_article(entry, feed):
                 pass
             else:
                 break
+    try:
+        updated_date = dateutil.parser.parse(entry['updated'])
+    except Exception:
+        pass
     content = get_article_content(entry)
 
     article_link = entry.get('link')
@@ -67,7 +71,8 @@ def construct_article(entry, feed):
             'readed': False, 'like': False,
             'content': content,
             'retrieved_date': now.isoformat(),
-            'date': (date or now).isoformat()}
+            'date': (date or now).isoformat(),
+            'updated_date': (updated_date or date or now).isoformat()}
 
 def get_article_content(entry):
     content = ''
diff --git a/src/web/models/article.py b/src/web/models/article.py
index 6c2df462..3f1db731 100644
--- a/src/web/models/article.py
+++ b/src/web/models/article.py
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ class Article(db.Model):
     readed = db.Column(db.Boolean(), default=False)
     like = db.Column(db.Boolean(), default=False)
     date = db.Column(db.DateTime(), default=datetime.now)
+    updated_date = db.Column(db.DateTime(), default=datetime.now)
     retrieved_date = db.Column(db.DateTime(), default=datetime.now)
 
     user_id = db.Column(db.Integer(), db.ForeignKey('user.id'))
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ class Article(db.Model):
                 "readed": self.readed,
                 "like": self.like,
                 "date": self.date,
+                "updated_date": self.updated_date,
                 "retrieved_date": self.retrieved_date,
                 "feed_id": self.feed_id,
                 "category_id": self.category_id}