mjestecko/tools/article_utils.py

import time, subprocess

def the_line_after_metadata(lines: []) -> int:
    i = 0
    while lines[i].strip():
        i += 1
    return i

def parse_metadata(filepath: str) -> {}:
    result = {}
    with open(filepath, "r") as f:
        content = f.readlines()
        i = the_line_after_metadata(content)

    for line in content[:i]:
        delim = line.find(":")
        key, val = (line[:delim].strip(), line[delim+1:].strip())
        if key == "Date":
            result["Date"] = time.gmtime(int(val))
        elif key == "Tags":
            result["Tags"] = val.split(",")
        else:
            result[key] = val
        result["Last Edit"] = time.gmtime(int(subprocess.getoutput(r"stat -c %Y " + filepath)))

    return result