#!/usr/bin/env python # # get_ubuntu_mirrors.py # # Download the latest list with available mirrors from the Ubuntu # wiki and extract the hosts from the raw page # # Copyright (c) 2006 Free Software Foundation Europe # # Author: Sebastian Heinlein # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as # published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the # License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 # USA import urllib2 import re import os import commands import sys # the list of official Ubuntu servers mirrors = [] # path to the local mirror list list_path = "../data/templates/Ubuntu.mirrors" req = urllib2.Request("https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Archive?action=raw") try: print "Downloading mirrors list from the Ubuntu wiki..." uri=urllib2.urlopen(req) p = re.compile('^.*((http|ftp):\/\/[A-Za-z0-9-.:\/_]+).*\n*$') for line in uri.readlines(): if r"[[Anchor(dvd-images)]]" in line: break if "http://" in line or "ftp://" in line: mirrors.append(p.sub(r"\1", line)) uri.close() except: print "Failed to download or extract the mirrors list!" sys.exit(1) print "Writing local mirrors list: %s" % list_path list = open(list_path, "w") for mirror in mirrors: list.write("%s\n" % mirror) list.close() print "Done."