--- a/documents/genericScrapers.py
+++ b/documents/genericScrapers.py
@@ -2,16 +2,20 @@
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__) or '.', '../'))
 import scrape
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
-import parsedatetime as pdt
 from time import mktime
-from datetime import datetime
 import feedparser
 import abc
+import unicodedata, re
+import dateutil
+from dateutil.parser import *
+from datetime import *
 
 class GenericDisclogScraper(object):
         __metaclass__ = abc.ABCMeta
 	agencyID = None
 	disclogURL = None
+	def remove_control_chars(self, input):
+		return "".join([i for i in input if ord(i) in range(32, 127)])
         def getAgencyID(self):
                 """ disclosr agency id """
 		if self.agencyID == None:
@@ -30,13 +34,14 @@
 		""" do the scraping """
 		return
 
+	@abc.abstractmethod
+        def getDescription(self, content, entry, doc):
+                """ get description"""
+		return
+
 
 
 class GenericRSSDisclogScraper(GenericDisclogScraper):
-        def getDescription(self, entry, doc):
-                """ get description from rss entry"""
-                doc['description'] = entry.summary
-		return
 
        	def doScrape(self):
                	foidocsdb = scrape.couch['disclosr-foidocuments']
@@ -50,14 +55,18 @@
 		  	doc = foidocsdb.get(hash)
 			#print doc
 			if doc == None:
-                        	print "saving"
+                        	print "saving "+ hash
 				edate = datetime.fromtimestamp(mktime( entry.published_parsed)).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
                                 doc = {'_id': hash, 'agencyID': self.getAgencyID(), 'url': entry.link, 'docID': entry.id,
                                 "date": edate,"title": entry.title}
-				self.getDescription(entry, doc)
+				self.getDescription(entry,entry, doc)
                                 foidocsdb.save(doc)
                         else:
                         	print "already saved"			
+        def getDescription(self, content, entry, doc):
+                """ get description from rss entry"""
+                doc.update({'description': content.summary})
+		return
 
 class GenericOAICDisclogScraper(GenericDisclogScraper):
         __metaclass__ = abc.ABCMeta
@@ -65,46 +74,67 @@
 	def getColumns(self,columns):
 		""" rearranges columns if required """
 		return
+        def getColumnCount(self):
+                return 5
+        def getDescription(self, content, entry, doc):
+                """ get description from rss entry"""
+		descriptiontxt = ""
+		for string in content.stripped_strings:
+                	descriptiontxt = descriptiontxt + " \n" + string
+                doc.update({'description': descriptiontxt})
+		return
+        def getTitle(self, content, entry, doc):
+                doc.update({'title': (''.join(content.stripped_strings))})
+		return
+	def getTable(self, soup):
+		return soup.table
+	def getDate(self, content, entry, doc):
+		edate = parse(''.join(content.stripped_strings).strip(), dayfirst=True, fuzzy=True).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
+		print edate
+		doc.update({'date': edate})
+		return
+	def getLinks(self, content, entry, doc):
+                links = []
+                for atag in entry.find_all("a"):
+                       	if atag.has_key('href'):
+                               	links.append(scrape.fullurl(content,atag['href']))
+                if links != []:
+	                doc.update({'links': links})
+		return
 
 	def doScrape(self):
-		cal = pdt.Calendar()
 		foidocsdb = scrape.couch['disclosr-foidocuments']
 		(url,mime_type,content) = scrape.fetchURL(scrape.docsdb, self.getURL(), "foidocuments", self.getAgencyID())
 		if content != None:
 			if mime_type == "text/html" or mime_type == "application/xhtml+xml" or mime_type =="application/xml":
 			# http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/documentation.html
 				soup = BeautifulSoup(content)
-				for row in soup.table.find_all('tr'):
+				table = self.getTable(soup)
+				for row in table.find_all('tr'):
 					columns = row.find_all('td')
-					if len(columns) == 5:
+					if len(columns) == self.getColumnCount():
 						(id, date, description, title, notes) = self.getColumns(columns)
-						print id.string
-						hash = scrape.mkhash(url+id.string)
-						links = []
-						for atag in row.find_all("a"):
-							if atag.has_key('href'):
-								links.append(scrape.fullurl(url,atag['href']))
+						print ''.join(id.stripped_strings)
+						if id.string == None:
+							hash = scrape.mkhash(self.remove_control_chars(url+(''.join(date.stripped_strings))))
+						else:
+							hash = scrape.mkhash(self.remove_control_chars(url+(''.join(id.stripped_strings))))
 						doc = foidocsdb.get(hash)
-						descriptiontxt = ""
-						for string in description.stripped_strings:
-							descriptiontxt = descriptiontxt + " \n" + string
 							
 						if doc == None:
-							print "saving"
-                                                        dtresult = cal.parseDateText(date.string)
-							if len(dtresult) == 2:
-								(dtdate,dtr) = dtresult
-								print dtdate
-                                                        	edate = ""+str(dtdate[0])+'-'+str(dtdate[1])+'-'+str(dtdate[2])
-							else:
-								edate = ""
-							doc = {'_id': hash, 'agencyID': self.getAgencyID(), 'url': self.getURL(), "links": links, 'docID': id.string,
-			 				 "date": edate, "description": descriptiontxt,"title": title.string,"notes": notes.string}
+							print "saving " +hash
+							doc = {'_id': hash, 'agencyID': self.getAgencyID(), 'url': self.getURL(), 'docID': (''.join(id.stripped_strings))}
+							self.getLinks(self.getURL(),row,doc)
+                                			self.getTitle(title,row, doc)
+                                			self.getDate(date,row, doc)
+							self.getDescription(description,row, doc)
+							if notes != None:
+                                        			doc.update({ 'notes': (''.join(notes.stripped_strings))})
 							foidocsdb.save(doc)
 						else:
-							print "already saved"
+							print "already saved "+hash
 					
-					elif len(row.find_all('th')) == 5:
+					elif len(row.find_all('th')) == self.getColumnCount():
 						print "header row"
 					
 					else: