--- a/scrape.py
+++ b/scrape.py
@@ -1,1 +1,79 @@
+#http://packages.python.org/CouchDB/client.html
+import couchdb
+import urllib2
+from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
+import re
+import hashlib
 
+#http://diveintopython.org/http_web_services/etags.html
+class NotModifiedHandler(urllib2.BaseHandler):  
+    def http_error_304(self, req, fp, code, message, headers):
+        addinfourl = urllib2.addinfourl(fp, headers, req.get_full_url())
+        addinfourl.code = code
+        return addinfourl
+
+def scrapeAndStore(docsdb, url, depth, agencyID):
+    hash = hashlib.md5(url).hexdigest()
+    req = urllib2.Request(url)
+    print "Fetching %s", url
+    doc = docsdb['hash']
+    #if there is a previous version stored in couchdb, load caching helper tags
+    if doc.has_key('etag'):
+        req.add_header("If-None-Match", doc['etag'])
+    if doc.has_key('last_modified'):
+        req.add_header("If-Modified-Since", doc['last_modified'])
+     
+    opener = urllib2.build_opener(NotModifiedHandler())
+    url_handle = opener.open(req)
+    headers = url_handle.info() # the addinfourls have the .info() too
+    doc['etag'] = headers.getheader("ETag")
+    doc['last_modified'] = headers.getheader("Last-Modified") 
+    doc['web_server'] = headers.getheader("Server") 
+    doc['file_size'] = headers.getheader("Content-Length") 
+    doc['mime_type'] = headers.getheader("Content-Type") 
+     
+    if hasattr(url_handle, 'code'): 
+        if url_handle.code == 304:
+            print "the web page has not been modified"
+        else: 
+            #do scraping
+            html = url_handle.read()
+            # http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/documentation.html
+            soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
+        links = soup.findAll('a') # soup.findAll('a', id=re.compile("^p-"))
+        for link in links:
+            if link.has_key("href"):
+                print link['href']
+                #for each unique link
+                #if html mimetype
+                # go down X levels,
+                # diff with last stored attachment, store in document
+                #if not
+                #   remember to save parentURL and title (link text that lead to document)
+    
+    #store as attachment epoch-filename
+    else:
+        print "error %s in downloading %s", url_handle.code, URL
+        #record/alert error to error database
+    
+    
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+couch = couchdb.Server('http://192.168.1.148:5984/')
+
+# select database
+agencydb = couch['disclosr-agencies']
+docsdb = couch['disclosr-documents']
+
+for row in agencydb.view('app/getScrapeRequired'): #not recently scraped agencies view?
+    agency = agencydb.get(row.id)
+    print agency['name']
+    scrapeAndStore(docsdb, agency['website'],1,agency['_id'])
+