import subprocess from html.parser import HTMLParser from os.path import abspath, dirname from urllib.request import urlopen class WiktionaryLatestVersionParser(HTMLParser): def __init__(self, current_version, *args, **kwargs): self.latest_version = current_version super().__init__(*args, **kwargs) def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs): if tag != 'a': return href = dict(attrs)['href'][0:-1] if href == 'latest': return self.latest_version = max(self.latest_version, href) def nix_prefetch_url(url, algo='sha256'): """Prefetches the content of the given URL.""" print(f'nix-prefetch-url {url}') out = subprocess.check_output(['nix-prefetch-url', '--type', algo, url]) return out.rstrip() current_version = subprocess.check_output([ 'nix', 'eval', '--raw', '-f', dirname(abspath(__file__)) + '/../../../..', 'dictdDBs.wiktionary.version', ]) parser = WiktionaryLatestVersionParser(current_version) with urlopen('https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/') as resp: parser.feed(resp.read()) print(parser.latest_version)