Datasets:
Tasks:
Text Generation
Languages:
Latin
import os | |
import re | |
import html | |
from urllib.request import urlopen | |
def download_file(url, filename): | |
if not os.path.exists(filename): | |
with urlopen(url) as response: | |
html_content = response.read().decode('ISO-8859-1') | |
with open(filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as out_file: | |
out_file.write(html_content) | |
def strip_html_and_markers(filename): | |
with open(filename, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as file: | |
content = file.read() | |
content = re.sub(r'<head>.*?</head>', '', content, flags=re.DOTALL) | |
# Remove anchor tags (both upper and lower case) and their content | |
content = re.sub(r'<a href=[^>]+>.*?</a>', '', content, flags=re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL) | |
# Remove other HTML tags | |
content = re.sub(r'<[^>]+>', '', content) | |
# Remove markers like [1] or [et] | |
content = re.sub(r'\[.*?\]', '', content) | |
# Remove empty brackets | |
content = re.sub(r'\[\]', '', content) | |
content = re.sub(r'\n[\s]*\n', '\n\n', content) | |
content = re.sub(r'^[ \t]+', '\t', content, flags=re.MULTILINE) | |
return html.unescape(content) | |
def main(): | |
urls = [ | |
'http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/fin1.shtml', | |
'http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/fin2.shtml', | |
'http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/fin3.shtml', | |
'http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/fin4.shtml', | |
'http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/fin5.shtml', | |
] | |
filenames = [ | |
'fin1.shtml', | |
'fin2.shtml', | |
'fin3.shtml', | |
'fin4.shtml', | |
'fin5.shtml', | |
] | |
target_filenames = [ | |
'fin1.txt', | |
'fin2.txt', | |
'fin3.txt', | |
'fin4.txt', | |
'fin5.txt', | |
] | |
for url, filename, target_filename in zip(urls, filenames, target_filenames): | |
download_file(url, filename) | |
final_text = strip_html_and_markers(filename) + '\n' | |
with open(target_filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as file: | |
file.write(final_text) | |
if __name__ == "__main__": | |
main() | |