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 json
-import requests
-
-import codecs
-
-# get_article_revisions is a function that takes an article title in
-# wikipedia and return a list of all the revisions and meatadata 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
-    wp_api_base = "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php/?action=query&titles=%(article_title)s&prop=revisions&rvprop=flags|timestamp|user|size|ids&rvlimit=500&format=json"
-    wp_api_base = wp_api_base % {'article_title': title }
-    wp_api_url = wp_api_base
-
-    # 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)
-        api_answer = json.loads(call.content)
-
-        # get the list of pages from the json object
-        pages = api_answer["query"]["pages"]
-
-        # for every pages (there should always be only one) get the revisions
-        for page in pages.keys():
-            query_revisions = pages[page]["revisions"]
-
-            # for every revision, we do first do cleaning up
-            for rev in query_revisions:
-                # lets continue/skip if the user is hidden
-                if rev.has_key("userhidden"):
-                    continue
-                
-                # 1: add a title field for the article because we're going to mix them together
-                rev["title"] = title
-
-                # 2: lets "recode" anon so it's true or false instead of present/missing
-                if rev.has_key("anon"):
-                    rev["anon"] = True
-                else:
-                    rev["anon"] = False
-
-                # 3: letst recode "minor" in the same way
-                if rev.has_key("minor"):
-                    rev["minor"] = True
-                else:
-                    rev["minor"] = False
-
-                # we're going to change the timestamp to make it work a little better in excel and similar
-                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)
-
-        # if there is a query-continue, it means there are more
-        if 'query-continue' in api_answer.keys():
-            # we will grab the rvcontinue token, insert it, and head back to the start of the loop
-            rvcontinue = api_answer["query-continue"]["revisions"]["rvcontinue"]
-            wp_api_url = wp_api_base + "&rvcontinue=%(continue_from)s" % {'continue_from' : rvcontinue}
-        else:
-            # no continue means we're done
-            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!
-url_catscan = 'http://tools.wmflabs.org/catscan2/catscan2.php?depth=10&categories=%(category)s&doit=1&format=json'
-url_catscan = url_catscan % {'category' : category}
-call = requests.get(url_catscan)
-articles = json.loads(call.content)
-articles = articles["*"][0]["a"]["*"]
-
-# open a filie to write all the output
-output = codecs.open("hp_wiki.csv", "wb", "utf-8")
-output.write(",".join(["title", "user", "timestamp", "size", "anon", "minor", "revid"]) + "\n")
-
-# for every article
-for article in articles:
-
-    # first grab tht title
-    title = article["a"]["title"]
-
-    # get the list of revisions from our function and then interating through it printinig it out
-    revisions = get_article_revisions(title)
-    for rev in revisions:
-        output.write(",".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()
-    
-