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README.md

@@ -1,2 +1,26 @@
 # Upwatch
 An Upwork webscraper that will notify you of newly published job posts in your field of work
+
+# PyQt5
+
+# MyPy
+python3 -m pip install mypy
+
+mypy *.py
+
+
+# PyQt5 Stub files for MyPy
+python3 -m pip install PyQt5-stubs
+
+
+# black
+python3 -m pip install black
+
+black *.py
+
+
+
+#LOGIC
+#BeautifulSoup
+#Requests
+#LXML

upwatch.py

@@ -1,19 +1,41 @@
-import requests
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup  # type: ignore
+from typing import TypedDict
+import requests
 import json
 import time
 import pathlib
-from typing import Any, List
-
-# TODO: use TypedDict for these
-JsonContent = Any
-JobPost = Any
+from typing import Optional, List, Tuple
 
 # !import re  # For looking for eventual word counts in job posts & controlling the validity of url input.
 
+JobPost = TypedDict(
+    "JobPost",
+    {
+        "Job Title": str,
+        "Payment Type": str,
+        "Budget": str,
+        "Job Description": str,
+        "Job Post URL": str,
+    },
+)
+
+JsonContent = TypedDict(
+    "JsonContent",
+    {
+        "Requests URL": str,
+        "Run on startup": bool,
+        "Scrape interval": int,
+        "DBMR": bool,
+        "Fixed Lowest Rate": int,
+        "Hourly Lowest Rate": int,
+        "Ignore no budget": bool,
+        "Job Posts": Optional[List[JobPost]],
+    },
+)
+
 
 # TODO: Add to json: user agent
-def read_from_json(json_path: pathlib.Path) -> JsonContent:
+def read_from_json(json_path: pathlib.Path) -> Tuple[JsonContent, bool]:
     """ Reads all the job posts from job_posts.json """
     try:
         with open(json_path / "job_posts.json", "r") as job_posts_json:
@@ -84,6 +106,7 @@ def json_difference_checker(
     """Checks the difference between current scrape and job posts
     stored in json to print any new job posts"""
 
+    assert json_content["Job Posts"] is not None
     old_job_urls = [job_post["Job Post URL"] for job_post in json_content["Job Posts"]]
 
     new_job_posts = [
@@ -124,14 +147,14 @@ def job_post_scraper(json_content: JsonContent) -> List[JobPost]:
             )  # TODO: Figure out how to fetch User Agent on current system.
             response.raise_for_status()
             break
-       # except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as errh:  # TODO Error messages need to be communicated to user in a different way.
-       #     print("HTTP Error:", errh)
-       #     print("Please try a different URL")
-       #     return
-       # except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
-       #     print("Error Connecting")
-       #     print("Please check you internet connection and try again.")
-       #     return
+        # except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as errh:  # TODO Error messages need to be communicated to user in a different way.
+        #     print("HTTP Error:", errh)
+        #     print("Please try a different URL")
+        #     return
+        # except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
+        #     print("Error Connecting")
+        #     print("Please check you internet connection and try again.")
+        #     return
         except requests.exceptions.Timeout:
             print("Your request timed out.")
             if connection_attempts == 3:
@@ -163,7 +186,7 @@ def job_post_scraper(json_content: JsonContent) -> List[JobPost]:
 
         job_post_url = job_post.find("a", class_="job-title-link").attrs["href"]
 
-        job_post_dict = {
+        job_post_dict: JobPost = {
             "Job Title": job_title,
             "Payment Type": job_payment_type,
             "Budget": job_budget,