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gillkyle/naive-check-alt-text.py

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naive-check-alt-text.py
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# NOTE: this is a really naive solution that just checks for alt="" in the returned html from the page,
# it would probably give a lot of erroneous results on other projects but got the job done for me.
import urllib.request as urllib2
base_path = "https://gatsbyjs.com"
blog_paths = 'blog_paths.txt'
with open(blog_paths) as fp:
line = fp.readline()
while line:
path = line.strip()
response = urllib2.urlopen(f'{base_path}{path}')
html = response.read()
raw_html = html.decode("utf-8")
if 'alt=""' in raw_html:
print(f'!!! alt text missing in {path} !!!')
else:
print(f'No missing alt text in {path}')
line = fp.readline()
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