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| """ | |
| Usage: | |
| - Linux: `python3 read_medium.py MEDIUM_URL` | |
| - Windows: `python read_medium.py MEDIUM_URL` | |
| """ | |
| import sys | |
| from selenium import webdriver | |
| from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By | |
| from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options | |
| GOOGLE_CACHE_URL = 'http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:' | |
| try: | |
| MEDIUM_URL = sys.argv[1] | |
| except: | |
| print('Usage:\n\tmain.py MEDIUM_URL') | |
| # driver = webdriver.Firefox() | |
| Options = Options() | |
| Options.add_experimental_option('detach', True) | |
| driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=Options) | |
| try: | |
| driver.get(GOOGLE_CACHE_URL + MEDIUM_URL + '&vwsrc=1') | |
| html = driver.find_element(by=By.TAG_NAME, value='pre').text | |
| driver.execute_script('document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].innerHTML = arguments[0];', html) | |
| except Exception as e: | |
| print('Error:\n\t', e) |
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