conf_reader

Functions which allows to read serialized informations for autoparser.

harvester.autoparser.conf_reader.read_config(file_name)[source]

Read YAML file with configuration and pointers to example data.

Parameters:file_name (str) – Name of the file, where the configuration is stored.
Returns:Parsed and processed data (see _process_config_item()).
Return type:dict
Example YAML file::

html: simple_xml.xml first:

data: i wan’t this required: true notfoundmsg: Can’t find variable $name.
second:
data: and this

— html: simple_xml2.xml first:

data: something wanted required: true notfoundmsg: Can’t find variable $name.
second:
data: another wanted thing