implement gzip compression requests and handling

notes.md

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
   * ~~remove base url from initial urls with and without trailing slash~~
   * ~~investigate using [tldextract](https://github.com/john-kurkowski/tldextract) to match urls~~ #wontfix
   * ~~implement parsing of [robots.txt](http://docs.w3cub.com/python~3.6/library/urllib.robotparser/)~~
-  * investigate [gzip encoding](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36383227/avoid-downloading-images-using-beautifulsoup-and-urllib-request)
+  * ~~investigate [gzip encoding](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36383227/avoid-downloading-images-using-beautifulsoup-and-urllib-request)~~
   * implement some kind of progress display
-  * async
+  * async
+  * better exception handling

utils/helpers.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 import urllib.request
 import urllib.robotparser
 import urllib.error
+import gzip
 from urllib.parse import (urljoin, urlsplit)
 
 
@@ -47,7 +48,8 @@ class WebPage(object):
     the data from each individual page.
     '''
 
-    headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0'}
+    headers = {'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
+               'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0'}
 
     def __init__(self, url=None, base_url=None, robots=None):
         self.url = url
@@ -66,7 +68,9 @@ class WebPage(object):
         page = urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=5) # handle
         headers = page.info()
         print(headers['content-type'])
-        if "text/html" in headers['content-type']:
+        if "gzip" in headers['content-type']:
+            self.source = gzip.decompress(page.read())
+        elif "text/html" in headers['content-type'] or "deflate" in headers['content-type']:
             self.source = page.read()