import urllib.request, json, datetime,os
from urllib.error import URLError, HTTPError
from tinydb import TinyDB, Query

folder = 'solar_server_stats'
now = datetime.datetime.now()
day = now.strftime('%F')
url = 'https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/api/stats.json'

if not os.path.exists(folder):
    os.mkdir(folder)

db = TinyDB(os.path.join(folder,day+'-stats.json'))


request = urllib.request.Request(url)

stats = {}

try:
	response = urllib.request.urlopen(request)

except HTTPError as e:
#    print('The server couldn\'t fulfill the request.')
#    print('Error code: ', e.code)
    error = e.code
    stats['server'] = None
    pass
except URLError as e:
#    print('We failed to reach a server.')
#    print('Reason: ', e.reason)
    error = e.reason
    stats['server'] = None
    pass


else:
    # everything is fine
    data = response.read().decode('utf-8')
    stats['server'] = json.loads(data)
    error = None

if error:
    stats['error'] = error.args[1]
else:
    stats['error'] = error

stats['day'] = day
stats['time'] = now.strftime('%H:%M')

db.insert(stats)