From acac9d4308f710d2f57ed6f304811ea64b585d2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ruud <ruud@crashdummy.nl>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:26:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add warning if LXML isn't installed if running from source

---
 README.md                       | 3 +++
 couchpotato/core/_base/_core.py | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1ccf689..fca0793 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ OS X:
 
 * If you're on Leopard (10.5) install Python 2.6+: [Python 2.6.5](http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.5/)
 * Install [GIT](http://git-scm.com/)
+* Install [LXML](http://lxml.de/installation.html) for better/faster website scraping 
 * Open up `Terminal`
 * Go to your App folder `cd /Applications`
 * Run `git clone https://github.com/RuudBurger/CouchPotatoServer.git`
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ Linux:
 
 * (Ubuntu / Debian) Install [GIT](http://git-scm.com/) with `apt-get install git-core`
 * (Fedora / CentOS) Install [GIT](http://git-scm.com/) with `yum install git`
+* Install [LXML](http://lxml.de/installation.html) for better/faster website scraping 
 * 'cd' to the folder of your choosing.
 * Run `git clone https://github.com/RuudBurger/CouchPotatoServer.git`
 * Then do `python CouchPotatoServer/CouchPotato.py` to start
@@ -59,6 +61,7 @@ FreeBSD :
 * Install port [ftp/curl](http://www.freshports.org/ftp/bcurl), deselect 'Asynchronous DNS resolution via c-ares' when prompted as part of config `cd /usr/ports/ftp/fpc-libcurl; sudo make install clean`
 * Install port [textproc/docbook-xml-450](http://www.freshports.org/textproc/docbook-xml-450) with `cd /usr/ports/textproc/docbook-xml-450; sudo make install clean`
 * Install port [GIT](http://git-scm.com/) with `cd /usr/ports/devel/git; sudo make install clean`
+* Install [LXML](http://lxml.de/installation.html) for better/faster website scraping 
 * 'cd' to the folder of your choosing.
 * Run `git clone https://github.com/RuudBurger/CouchPotatoServer.git`
 * Then run `sudo python CouchPotatoServer/CouchPotato.py` to start for the first time
diff --git a/couchpotato/core/_base/_core.py b/couchpotato/core/_base/_core.py
index 81f5fa5..14281ef 100644
--- a/couchpotato/core/_base/_core.py
+++ b/couchpotato/core/_base/_core.py
@@ -73,6 +73,13 @@ class Core(Plugin):
         except:
             log.debug('Failed setting default ssl context: %s', traceback.format_exc())
 
+
+        # Check if lxml is available
+        try:
+            from lxml import etree
+        except:
+            log.error('LXML not available, please install for better/faster scraping support. `http://lxml.de/installation.html`')
+
     def md5Password(self, value):
         return md5(value) if value else ''