FEATURE: Added logging, finally!

Now the log_dir and log_file_path actually do something useful.

discorss.py

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 import requests
 import feedparser
 import hashlib
+import logging
 from pathlib import Path
 import json
 import time
@@ -58,10 +59,11 @@ def get_description(feed):
 
 def setupPaths():
     global app_config
+    global logger
     # Check for log and config files/paths, create empty directories if needed
     # TODO: make this cleaner
-    if not Path(log_file_path).exists():
+    if not Path(log_dir).exists():
-        print("No log file path exists. Yark! We'll try and make {}...", log_dir)
+        print("No log file path exists. Yark! We'll try and make {}...".format(log_dir))
         try:
             Path(log_dir).mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
         except FileExistsError:
@@ -85,6 +87,15 @@ def setupPaths():
     # Loading the config file
     with open(config_file_path, "r") as config_file:
         app_config = json.load(config_file)
+    # Set up logging
+    logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+    logging.basicConfig(
+        filename=str(log_dir + log_file_path),
+        encoding="utf-8",
+        level=logging.INFO,
+        datefmt="%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S",
+        format="%(asctime)s: %(levelname)s: %(message)s",
+    )
     return
 
 
@@ -99,24 +110,28 @@ def main():
         last_check = now - 21600  # first run, no lastupdate, check up to 6 hours ago
     for i, hook in enumerate(app_config["feeds"]):
         # Get the feed
-        print("Parsing feed {}...".format(hook["name"]))
+        logger.info("Parsing feed %s...", hook["name"])
         feeds = feedparser.parse(hook["url"])
         latest_post = []
         prev_best = 0
-        for feed in feeds:
+        for feed in feeds["entries"]:
             try:
+                bad_time = False
                 published_time = time.mktime(feed["published_parsed"])
                 published_time = published_time + hook["offset"]
             except KeyError:
-                published_time = feed["published"]
+                published_time = time.mktime(feed["updated_parsed"])
-                print(published_time)
+                bad_time = True
-                sys.exit(254)
             if published_time > prev_best:
                 latest_post = feed
                 prev_best = published_time
             else:
                 continue
-
+        if bad_time is True:
+            logger.warning(
+                "Feed %s doesn't supply a published time, using updated time instead",
+                hook["name"],
+            )
         # Hash the title of the latest post and use that to determine if it's been posted
         new_hash = hashlib.sha3_512(bytes(latest_post["title"], "utf-8")).hexdigest()
         try:
@@ -126,7 +141,16 @@ def main():
                 continue
         except KeyError:
             app_config["feeds"][i]["lasthash"] = new_hash
+            logger.info(
+                "Feed %s has no existing hash, likely a new feed!", hook["name"]
+            )
         # Generate the webhook
+        logger.info(
+            "Publishing webhook for %s. Last check was %d, now is %d",
+            hook["name"],
+            last_check,
+            now,
+        )
         webhook = {
             "embeds": [
                 {
@@ -157,9 +181,10 @@ def main():
         }
         webhook_string = json.dumps(webhook)
 
-        if published_time > last_check:
+        r = requests.post(hook["webhook"], data=webhook_string, headers=custom_header)
-            r = requests.post(
+        if r.status_code not in success_codes:
-                hook["webhook"], data=webhook_string, headers=custom_header
+            logger.error(
+                "Error %d while trying to post %s", r.status_code, hook["webhook"]
             )
             if r.status_code not in success_codes:
                 print(