From d8c4cb47faf67c03931446792ca05c1558f30fb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: likhy <placeholder@domain.tld>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2023 10:32:50 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] tested for http requests (404s)

---
 example/settings.toml |  3 ++-
 microblog.py          | 29 ++++++++++++++++++-----------
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/example/settings.toml b/example/settings.toml
index 31c8daf..5a8f52b 100644
--- a/example/settings.toml
+++ b/example/settings.toml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-latestpage="result.html"
+# latestpage="result.html"
+latestpages=["meta.json", "result.html"]
 
 [page]
 postsperpage = 20
diff --git a/microblog.py b/microblog.py
index b049c07..059c46f 100644
--- a/microblog.py
+++ b/microblog.py
@@ -374,24 +374,27 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
             print(json.dumps(profile), file=f)
 
     import urllib.request as http
-    def fn1(config):    # come up with better name later
+    def fn1(webring_config):    # come up with better name later
         def fetch(follow_list):
-            oither_people = []
+            other_people = []
             for someone in follow_list:
                 try:
                     with http.urlopen(someone) as response:
                         data = response.read()
                         objects.append(json.loads(data))
-                except urllib.error.HTTPError:
-                    print("http error - skipping", file=sys.stderr)
+                except http.HTTPError as e:
+                    print(e,": ", someone, file=sys.stderr)
                     pass
             return other_people
-        list_of_json_objs = []
-        with open("meta.json",'r') as f:
-            list_of_json_objs.append(json.loads(f.read()))
-        # list_of_json_obj = fetch(config["profile"]["following"])
+        # list_of_json_objs = []
+        # with open("meta.json",'r') as f:
+        #     list_of_json_objs.append(json.loads(f.read()))
+        list_of_json_objs = fetch(webring_config["list"])
+        if list_of_json_objs == []:
+            print("no remote profiles loaded", file=sys.stderr)
+            return []
         rendered = []
-        template = config["format"]
+        template = webring_config["format"]
         SHORT_BIO_LIMIT = 150
         for profile in list_of_json_objs:
             epoch_timestamp = profile["last-updated"]
@@ -456,13 +459,17 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
                     len(p), p[0].get_epoch_time(), cfg["webring"] )
             if "following" in cfg["webring"]:
                 fellows = fn1(cfg["webring"]["following"] )
-                updated += writepage(
-                    tpl, fellows, tc, cfg["page"], subdir="placeholder" )
+                if fellows != []:
+                    updated += writepage(
+                        tpl, fellows, tc, cfg["page"], subdir="placeholder" )
         with open("updatedfiles.txt", 'w') as f:
             for filename in updated:
                 print(filename, file=f) # sys.stderr)
             if "latestpage" in cfg:
                 print(cfg["latestpage"], file=f)
+            if "latestpages" in cfg:
+                for page in cfg["latestpages"]:
+                    print(page, file=f)
     try:
         main()
     except KeyError as e: