update the harry potter for morning lecture

[harrypotter-wikipedia-cdsw] / build_hpwp_dataset.py

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-#!/usr/bin/env python
-# coding=utf-8
-
-import encoding_fix
-import requests
-
-# get_article_revisions is a function that takes an article title in
-# wikipedia and return a list of all the revisions and metadata for
-# that article
-def get_article_revisions(title):
-    revisions = []
-
-    # create a base url for the api and then a normal url which is initially
-    # just a copy of it
-    # The following line is what the requests call is doing, basically.
-    # "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php/?action=query&titles={0}&prop=revisions&rvprop=flags|timestamp|user|size|ids&rvlimit=500&format=json&continue=".format(title)
-    wp_api_url = "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php/"
-
-    parameters = {'action' : 'query',
-                  'titles' : title,
-                  'prop' : 'revisions',
-                  'rvprop' : 'flags|timestamp|user|size|ids',
-                  'rvlimit' : 500,
-                  'format' : 'json',
-                  'continue' : '' }
-
-    # we'll repeat this forever (i.e., we'll only stop when we find
-    # the "break" command)
-    while True:
-        # the first line open the urls but also handles unicode urls
-        call = requests.get(wp_api_url, params=parameters)
-        api_answer = call.json()
-
-        # get the list of pages from the json object
-        pages = api_answer["query"]["pages"]
-
-        # for every page, (there should always be only one) get its revisions:
-        for page in pages.keys():
-            query_revisions = pages[page]["revisions"]
-
-            # for every revision, first we do some cleaning up
-            for rev in query_revisions:
-                #print(rev)
-                # let's continue/skip this revision if the user is hidden
-                if "userhidden" in rev:
-                    continue
-                
-                # 1: add a title field for the article because we're going to mix them together
-                rev["title"] = title
-
-                # 2: let's "recode" anon so it's true or false instead of present/missing
-                if "anon" in rev:
-                    rev["anon"] = True
-                else:
-                    rev["anon"] = False
-
-                # 3: let's recode "minor" in the same way
-                if "minor" in rev:
-                    rev["minor"] = True
-                else:
-                    rev["minor"] = False
-
-                # we're going to change the timestamp to make it work a little better in excel/spreadsheets
-                rev["timestamp"] = rev["timestamp"].replace("T", " ")
-                rev["timestamp"] = rev["timestamp"].replace("Z", "")
-
-                # finally, save the revisions we've seen to a varaible
-                revisions.append(rev)
-
-        # 'continue' tells us there's more revisions to add
-        if 'continue' in api_answer:
-            # replace the 'continue' parameter with the contents of the
-            # api_answer dictionary.
-            parameters.update(api_answer['continue'])
-        else:
-            break
-
-    # return all the revisions for this page
-    return(revisions)
-
-category = "Harry Potter"
-
-# we'll use another api called catscan2 to grab a list of pages in
-# categories and subcategories. it works like all the other apis we've
-# studied!
-#
-# The following requests call basically does the same thing as this string:
-# "http://tools.wmflabs.org/catscan2/catscan2.php?depth=10&categories={0}&doit=1&format=json".format(category)
-url_catscan = "https://petscan.wmflabs.org/"
-
-parameters = {'depth' : 10,
-              'categories' : category,
-              'format' : 'json',
-              'doit' : 1}
-
-# r = requests.get("http://tools.wmflabs.org/catscan2/catscan2.php?depth=10&categories=Harry Potter&doit=1&format=json"
-
-r = requests.get(url_catscan, params=parameters)
-articles_json = r.json()
-articles = articles_json["*"][0]["a"]["*"]
-
-# open a file to write all the output
-output = open("hp_wiki.tsv", "w", encoding="utf-8")
-output.write("\t".join(["title", "user", "timestamp", "size", "anon", "minor", "revid"]) + "\n")
-
-# for every article
-for article in articles:
-    # skip this until it's an article
-    if article["namespace"] != 0:
-        continue
-
-    # first grab the article's title
-    title = article["title"]
-    print(title)
-
-    # get the list of revisions from our function and then iterate through it,
-    # printing it to our output file
-    revisions = get_article_revisions(title)
-    for rev in revisions:
-        output.write("\t".join(['"' + rev["title"] + '"', '"' + rev["user"] + '"',
-                               rev["timestamp"], str(rev["size"]), str(rev["anon"]),
-                               str(rev["minor"]), str(rev["revid"])]) + "\n")
-
-# close the file, we're done here!
-output.close()
-