Dumped the buggy auto parser. replaced it with a faster command-based system that doesn't fail as much

plugins/urlparse.py

@@ -4,46 +4,37 @@ from urllib2 import urlopen, Request, HTTPError
 import re
 import BeautifulSoup
 
-ignored_urls = ["http://google.com", "http://youtube.com",
-                "http://pastebin.com", "http://mibpaste.com",
-                "http://fpaste.com", "http://git.io"]
+titler = re.compile(r'(?si)<title>(.+?)</title>');
 
-def parse(match):
-    url = urlnorm.normalize(match.encode('utf-8'))
-    if url not in ignored_urls:
-        url = url.decode('utf-8')
-        try:
-            soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(http.get(url))
-            return soup.title.string
-        except:
-            return "fail"
-
-# there should be " after the ' in the regex string but I was unable to escape it properly
-@hook.regex(r"(?i)\b((?:https?://|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'.,<>?«»“”‘’]))")
-def urlparser(match, say=None, bot=None):
+def parse(url):
+    """ an improved version of our parsing code - now regex powered """
+    url = urlnorm.normalize(url.encode('utf-8'))
+    url = url.decode('utf-8')
+    # add http if its missing
+    if url[:7] != "http://" and url[:8] != "https://":
+        url = "http://" + url
     try:
-        enabled = bot.config["plugins"]["urlparse"]["enabled"]
-    except KeyError:
-        enabled = False
-
-    if not enabled:
-        return
-
-    url = urlnorm.normalize(match.group().encode('utf-8'))
-    if url[:7] != "http://":
-        if url[:8] != "https://":
-            url = "http://" + url
-    for x in ignored_urls:
-        if x in url:
-            return
-    title = parse(url)
-    if title == "fail":
-        return
+        # get the title
+        print url
+        request = http.open(url)
+        real_url = request.geturl()
+        text = request.read()
+        text = text.decode('utf8')
+        match = titler.search(text)
+        title = match.group(1)
+    except:
+        return "Could not parse URL! Are you sure its valid?"
+        
     title = http.unescape(title)
-    realurl = http.get_url(url)
-    if realurl == url:
-        say(u"(Link) %s" % title)
-        return
+    
+    # if the url has been redirected, show us
+    if real_url == url:
+        return title
     else:
-        say(u"(Link) %s [%s]" % (title, realurl))
-        return
+        return u"%s [%s]" % (title, real_url)
+
+@hook.command
+def title(inp):
+    ".title <url> -- gets the title of a web page"
+    return parse(inp)
+