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'.*?', '', content, flags=re.DOTALL)
# Remove anchor tags (both upper and lower case) and their content
content = re.sub(r']+>.*?', '', 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()