tools/crawl-tales.py

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import json

def scrape_tales_by_year(start_year, end_year):
    base_url = "https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/tales-by-date-"
    all_tales = []

    for year in range(start_year, end_year + 1):
        url = f"{base_url}{year}"
        response = requests.get(url)
        soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')

        # Find all tables, then find all table rows within each table
        for table in soup.find_all('table', class_='wiki-content-table'):
            for row in table.find_all('tr'):
                cells = row.find_all('td')
                if cells:
                    a_tag = cells[0].find('a', href=True)
                    if a_tag:
                        tale_url = f"https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com{a_tag['href']}"
                        tale_response = requests.get(tale_url)
                        tale_soup = BeautifulSoup(tale_response.content, 'html.parser')

                        # Extract the text from the div with id 'page-content'
                        page_content = tale_soup.find('div', id='page-content')
                        if page_content:
                            # Remove the first div with specific style if it exists
                            first_div = page_content.find('div', style="text-align: right;")
                            if first_div:
                                first_div.decompose()

                            # Remove the div with class 'licensebox' if it exists
                            licensebox_div = page_content.find('div', class_='licensebox')
                            if licensebox_div:
                                licensebox_div.decompose()

                            # Now get the text from the rest of the page-content
                            tale_text = page_content.get_text().strip()

                            all_tales.append({'text': tale_text})

                            # Find the first non-empty line in the tale's text
                            first_line = next((line for line in tale_text.splitlines() if line.strip()), "")
                            print(first_line)  # Print the first non-empty line of the tale
                            # Optionally, write tale to a file or process it further here
                        else:
                            print(f"Could not find page-content div for {tale_url}")
    # Write the tales to a JSONL file
    with open('scp_tales.jsonl', 'w') as file:
        for tale in all_tales:
            json_record = json.dumps(tale)  # tale is already a dict with the key "text"
            file.write(json_record + '\n')
# Call the function with the range of years you want to scrape
scrape_tales_by_year(2008, 2022)