Show excerpts of posts in the menu

server.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from os import getenv
 from urllib.parse import urljoin
 from html import unescape
-
+from textwrap import wrap as text_wrap
 
 import pituophis
 from pituophis import Item, Request
@@ -14,6 +14,20 @@ wordpress_url = getenv("URL")
 handlers = {}
 formatters = {}
 
+def wrap(text):
+    return "\n".join(text_wrap(text, width=int(getenv("WIDTH", 80))))
+
+def excise_special_characters(text):
+    # TODO: Actually use .encode("ascii", "excise_special_characters") and register a custom handler
+    for char, replacement in {
+        "“": '"',
+        "’": "'",
+        "”": '"',
+        "w": "w",
+    }.items():
+        text = text.replace(char, replacement)
+    return text
+
 def register_handler(path: str):
     def decorator_handler(func):
         handlers[path] = func
@@ -41,13 +55,23 @@ def p(tag):
     return tag.get_text()
 
 @register_formatter
-def img(_tag):
-    return "(Image Omitted)"
+def img(tag):
+    if "alt" in tag:
+        return f"<Image Omitted: {tag['alt']}>"
+    return "<Image Omitted (no alt text)>"
 
 def format_post(post):
-    soup = BeautifulSoup(post[0]["content"]["rendered"], features="html.parser")
-    tags = soup.find_all(["h1", "h2", "h3", "p", "img"])
-    return "\n".join(formatters[tag.name](tag) for tag in tags)
+    post = post[0]
+    header = f"""
+    ** {post["title"]} **
+    {post["date"]} - {post["author"]}
+    """
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(post["content"]["rendered"], features="html.parser")
+    tags = soup.find_all(formatters.keys())
+    return header + "\n".join(
+        wrap(formatters[tag.name](tag))
+        for tag in tags
+    )
 
 @register_handler("/post/{slug}")
 def post(request: Request, slug: str):
@@ -59,6 +83,12 @@ def post(request: Request, slug: str):
     page = get(urljoin(wordpress_url, f"wp-json/wp/v2/pages?slug={slug}")).json()
     return format_post(page)
 
+def format_excerpt(post):
+    text = BeautifulSoup(post["excerpt"]["rendered"]).get_text()
+    cutoff = text.find("…")
+    fudge_factor = 100 # Deal with the weird [html] link generated by the penny toys article
+    return wrap(excise_special_characters(text[:cutoff - fudge_factor] + "..."))
+
 def handle(request):
     for path, handler in handlers.items():
         parse_result = parse(path, request.path)
@@ -72,10 +102,9 @@ def handle(request):
         ("Posts", posts, "/post/")
     ):
         menu.append(f"<==={heading}===>")
-        menu += [
-            Item(itype=0, path=f"{url}{post['slug']}", text=unescape(post['title']['rendered']), host=request.host, port=request.port)
-            for i, post in enumerate(items)
-        ]
+        for i, post in enumerate(items):
+            menu.append(Item(itype=0, path=f"{url}{post['slug']}", text=unescape(post['title']['rendered']), host=request.host, port=request.port))
+            menu.append(format_excerpt(post))
     return menu
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':