Zompist Bboard Again

Posted: **Tue Mar 22, 2022 7:41 pm**

Just curious because I'm currently making one by copying the source (copy as in Ctrl+c Ctrl+v) into HTML files, as well as downloading the required images.

Posted: **Tue Mar 29, 2022 11:38 pm**

WarpedWartWars wrote: ↑Tue Mar 22, 2022 7:41 pm I'm currently making one by copying the source (copy as in Ctrl+c Ctrl+v) into HTML files, as well as downloading the required images.

On Firefox, for single pages at least, it would probably be simpler to just do CTRL+S and select "Web page, complete". This should automatically download all the files used by a particular page.

If you want to download an entire site (ie., hundreds of pages), it would probably be faster to just use a web scraper.

Posted: **Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:59 pm**

mocha wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 11:38 pm If you want to download an entire site (ie., hundreds of pages), it would probably be faster to just use a web scraper.

Not actually sure what that is.

Posted: **Thu Mar 31, 2022 5:53 am**

I used to have various copies of it done by web scrapers at various points in the 2000s and 2010s, but I think they're all gone now.

Posted: **Fri Apr 01, 2022 11:14 am**

WarpedWartWars wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:59 pm
mocha wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 11:38 pm If you want to download an entire site (ie., hundreds of pages), it would probably be faster to just use a web scraper.
Not actually sure what that is.

It's a program that basically does this:

(1) Download webpage
(2) Look for links on webpage
(3) Goto (1) with new webpage(s)

Fairly simple to code and allows you to download a website fairly quickly (at least, all linked pages...)

Posted: **Fri Apr 01, 2022 1:05 pm**

mocha wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 11:14 am
WarpedWartWars wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:59 pm
mocha wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 11:38 pm If you want to download an entire site (ie., hundreds of pages), it would probably be faster to just use a web scraper.
Not actually sure what that is.
It's a program that basically does this:

(1) Download webpage
(2) Look for links on webpage
(3) Goto (1) with new webpage(s)

Fairly simple to code and allows you to download a website fairly quickly (at least, all linked pages...)

But you have to be careful that you don't accidentally download the entire Internet in the process.

Posted: **Fri Apr 01, 2022 6:03 pm**

While writing a small webscraping utility as a proof-of-concept, I found I apparently already made one, and already downloaded zompist.com about a year ago, except it's mostly just the pages without css. Oh well.

It's on my github, if you're interested: https://github.com/Mocha2007/mochalib/b ... _domain.py

Posted: **Wed Apr 06, 2022 9:17 pm**

mocha wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 11:14 am It's a program that basically does this:

(1) Download webpage
(2) Look for links on webpage
(3) Goto (1) with new webpage(s)

Fairly simple to code and allows you to download a website fairly quickly (at least, all linked pages...)

I'd like to code it in Python, but the thing I'm having trouble with is step 2.

Edit: Got step 2 working; at least for

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<a href="relative/path/with/no/explicit/domain.txt"></a>

, which is what zompist.com uses for zompist.com/... links.

Edit: This is what I have so far:

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import os
from urllib.request import urlopen
import re

def _load(url):
    return urlopen(url).read() #.decode(errors="backslashreplace")

def load(url):
    try:
        return (file := _load(url)).decode()
    except UnicodeDecodeError:
        return file

def get_links(url, page):
    narrowed = []
    for (_, _, link) in re.findall(r"""(href|src)=(?P<quote>['"])(?P<url>.*?)(?P=quote)""",
                                   page, re.IGNORECASE):
        curr = ["https://" + domain(url)]
        if link.startswith("http"):
            if domain(link) == domain(url):
                if "/" in (rest := nondomain(link)):
                    curr.append(rest.split("/"))
                else:
                    curr.append(rest)
        elif "/" in link:
            curr.append(link.split("/"))
        else:
            curr.append(link)
        narrowed.append("/".join(curr))
    return narrowed

def save_file(path, file):
    print("saving '" + path + "'...")
    if "/" in path:
        os.makedirs("/".join(path.split("/")[:-1]))
    with open(path, "w" + isinstance(file, bytes) * "b") as f:
        f.write(file)

def dhelp(url):
    return (url.lstrip("qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm").lstrip(":/")
                if "://" in url else url).split("/")

def domain(url):
    return dhelp(url)[0]

def nondomain(url):
    return ("/".join(dhelp(url)[1:]) if len(dhelp(url)) else "")

def _main(url):
    global done
    if url in done:
        return
    done.append(url)
    page = load(url)
    save_file(nondomain(url), page)
    for link in get_links(url, page):
        _main(link)

def main(url):
    global done
    done = []
    os.mkdir(domain(url))
    os.chdir(domain(url))
    _main((url + "index.html") if not nondomain(url) else url)

but:

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>>> main("https://zompist.com/")
saving 'index.html'...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#32>", line 1, in <module>
    main("https://zompist.com/")
  File "C:\Users\<user>\Desktop\py\webscrape.py", line 65, in main
    _main((url + "index.html") if not nondomain(url) else url)
  File "C:\Users\<user>\Desktop\py\webscrape.py", line 56, in _main
    save_file(nondomain(url), page)
  File "C:\Users\<user>\Desktop\py\webscrape.py", line 37, in save_file
    f.write(file)
  File "C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u0263' in position 4166: character maps to <undefined>

Posted: **Thu Apr 07, 2022 4:20 pm**

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Posted: **Thu Apr 07, 2022 6:47 pm**

WarpedWartWars wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 9:17 pm but:
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UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u0263' in position 4166: character maps to <undefined>

Because I'm lazy my solution to this was to simply ignore the errors:

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file.write(src, encode='utf-8', errors='ignore')

I might be losing random characters here and there, but if I am, I don't see them, which is good enough for me!

Posted: **Thu Apr 07, 2022 7:38 pm**

mocha wrote: ↑Thu Apr 07, 2022 6:47 pm Because I'm lazy my solution to this was to simply ignore the errors:
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file.write(src, encode='utf-8', errors='ignore')
I might be losing random characters here and there, but if I am, I don't see them, which is good enough for me!

Now I'm getting

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
    main("https://www.zompist.com/")
  File "C:\Users\<user>\Desktop\py\webscrape.py", line 64, in main
    _main((url + "index.html") if not nondomain(url) else url)
  File "C:\Users\<user>\Desktop\py\webscrape.py", line 55, in _main
    save_file(nondomain(url), page)
  File "C:\Users\<user>\Desktop\py\webscrape.py", line 37, in save_file
    f.write(file, errors="ignore")
TypeError: TextIOWrapper.write() takes no keyword arguments

Posted: **Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:13 am**

Looks very much like a Python version issue.

Posted: **Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:41 am**

alice wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:13 am Looks very much like a Python version issue.

I'm using 3.10.2. What might it be that's causing it?

Posted: **Fri Apr 08, 2022 1:22 pm**

WarpedWartWars wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:41 am
alice wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:13 am Looks very much like a Python version issue.
I'm using 3.10.2. What might it be that's causing it?

This error message:

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TypeError: TextIOWrapper.write() takes no keyword arguments

suggests that mocha's version of TextIOWrapper is not the same as yours. That's pretty much all I can say.

Posted: **Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:33 pm**

alice wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 1:22 pm
WarpedWartWars wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:41 am
alice wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:13 am Looks very much like a Python version issue.
I'm using 3.10.2. What might it be that's causing it?
This error message:
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TypeError: TextIOWrapper.write() takes no keyword arguments
suggests that mocha's version of TextIOWrapper is not the same as yours. That's pretty much all I can say.

Maybe I could put the "errors" kwarg in "open(...)"...

Posted: **Fri Apr 08, 2022 6:03 pm**

Ok. I have this:

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import os
from urllib.request import urlopen
import re

def _load(url):
    return urlopen(url).read() #.decode(errors="backslashreplace")

def load(url):
    try:
        return (file := _load(url)).decode()
    except UnicodeDecodeError:
        return file

def get_links(url, page):
    narrowed = []
    for (_, _, link) in re.findall(r"""(href|src)=(?P<quote>['"])(?P<url>.*?)(?P=quote)""",
                                   page, re.IGNORECASE):
        if not nondomain(link):
            continue
        curr = ["https://" + domain(url)]
        if link.startswith("http"):
            if domain(link) == domain(url):
                if "/" in (rest := nondomain(link)):
                    curr += rest.split("/")
                else:
                    curr += [rest]
        elif "/" in link:
            curr += link.split("/")
        else:
            curr += [link]
        narrowed.append("/".join(curr))
    return narrowed

def save_file(path, file):
    print("saving '" + path + "'...")
    if "/" in path:
        os.makedirs("/".join(path.split("/")[:-1]))
    with (open(path, "wb")
          if isinstance(file, bytes)
          else open(path, "w", errors="ignore")) as f:
        f.write(file)

def dhelp(url):
    return (url.lstrip("qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm").lstrip(":/")
                if "://" in url else url).split("/")

def domain(url):
    return dhelp(url)[0]

def nondomain(url):
    return ("/".join(dhelp(url)[1:]) if len(dhelp(url)) else "")

def _main(url):
    global done
    if url in done:
        return
    done.append(url)
    print(url)
    page = load(url)
    save_file(nondomain(url), page)
    if not isinstance(page, bytes):
        for link in get_links(url, page):
            if nondomain(link):
                _main(link)

def main(url):
    global done
    done = []
    os.mkdir(domain(url))
    os.chdir(domain(url))
    _main((url + "index.html") if not nondomain(url) else url)

and it works for some things, but not "../stuff":

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>>> main("https://zompist.com/")
https://zompist.com/index.html
saving 'index.html'...
https://zompist.com/illo/zbblogo.gif
saving 'illo/zbblogo.gif'...
https://zompist.com/mars/index.html
saving 'mars/index.html'...
https://zompist.com/../incatena.html
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#18>", line 1, in <module>
    main("https://zompist.com/")
  File "C:\Users\<user>\Desktop\py\webscrape.py", line 71, in main
    _main((url + "index.html") if not nondomain(url) else url)
  File "C:\Users\<user>\Desktop\py\webscrape.py", line 64, in _main
    _main(link)
  File "C:\Users\<user>\Desktop\py\webscrape.py", line 64, in _main
    _main(link)
  File "C:\Users\<user>\Desktop\py\webscrape.py", line 59, in _main
    page = load(url)
  File "C:\Users\<user>\Desktop\py\webscrape.py", line 10, in load
    return (file := _load(url)).decode()
  File "C:\Users\<user>\Desktop\py\webscrape.py", line 6, in _load
    return urlopen(url).read() #.decode(errors="backslashreplace")
  File "C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\urllib\request.py", line 216, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\urllib\request.py", line 525, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\urllib\request.py", line 634, in http_response
    response = self.parent.error(
  File "C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\urllib\request.py", line 563, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\urllib\request.py", line 496, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\urllib\request.py", line 643, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request

How do I fix that?

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:20 am**

Update: I updated the code recently and it at least mostly works now:

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import os
from urllib.request import urlopen
from urllib.error import HTTPError, URLError
from http.client import InvalidURL
import sys
import re

def istextlike(url):
    return any(url.lower().endswith(ext) for ext in
               (".txt",".md",".html",".htm",".shtml"))

def _load(url):
    return urlopen(url).read() #.decode(errors="backslashreplace")

def load(url):
    c = _load(url)
    if istextlike(url):
        c = re.sub(r"\\x([0-9a-f]{2})",lambda m:chr(int(m[1],16)),
                   c.decode(errors='backslashreplace'))
    return c

def get_links(url, page):
    narrowed = []
    for match in re.findall(r"""(?:
                                 (?:href|src)=
                                 (?P<quote1>['"])
                                  (?P<url1>.*?)
                                 (?P=quote1)
                                )|
                                (?:
                                 (?:url|open)\(
                                  (?P<quote2>['"])
                                   (?P<url2>.*?)
                                  (?P=quote2)
                                 \)
                                )|
                                (?:
                                 name\s*=\s*
                                 (?P<quote3>['"])
                                  (?P<url3>.*?)
                                 (?P=quote3)
                                )""",
                                   page, re.IGNORECASE | re.VERBOSE):
        link = match[1] or match[3] or match[5]
        if ("#" in link or
            "?" in link):
            continue
        relurl = nondomain(url).split("/")[:-1]
        curr = ["http://"+domain(url)]
        while link.startswith("."):
            relurl = relurl[:-1]
            link = "/".join(link.split("/")[1:])
        curr += relurl
        if link.startswith("http"):
            if domain(link) == domain(url):
                curr = [curr[0]] + nondomain(link).split("/")
            else:
                continue
        elif ("://" in link or
              link.startswith("mailto:")):
            continue
        elif "/" in link:
            if link.startswith("/"):
                curr = [curr[0]]
                link = link[1:]
            curr += link.split("/")
        else:
            curr += [link]
        narrowed.append("/".join(curr))
    return narrowed

def save_file(path, file):
    path = path.strip()
    if path[-1] == "/":
        path += "index.html"
    print("saving '" + path + "'...")
    if "/" in path:
        os.makedirs("/".join(path.split("/")[:-1]), exist_ok=True)
    try:
        with (open(path, "wb")) as f:
              #if isinstance(file, bytes)
              #else open(path, "w", errors="ignore")) as f:
            f.write(file if isinstance(file, bytes)
                    else file.encode())
    except PermissionError:
        pass

def dhelp(url):
    return (url.lstrip("qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm").lstrip(":/")
                if "://" in url else #"./"+
                                     url).split("/")

def domain(url):
    return dhelp(url)[0]

def nondomain(url):
    return ("/".join(dhelp(url)[1:]) if len(dhelp(url)) else "")

def _main(todo, done):
    url = todo.pop(0)
    if url in done:
        return
    done.append(url)
    print(url)
    try:
        page = load(url)
    except HTTPError as err:
        if err.status == 404:
            print("404: " + url, file=sys.stderr)
            return
        raise
    except URLError as err:
        if True:#err.errno == -3:
            print("Failed, no internet probably")
        return
    except InvalidURL as err:
        print(err, file=sys.stderr)
        return
    save_file(nondomain(url), page)
    if isinstance(page, bytes):
        return
    for link in get_links(url, page):
        if nondomain(link):
            todo.append(link)#_main(link)

def main(url):
    done = []
    todo = [url]
    os.makedirs(domain(url).replace(":", "_"), exist_ok=True)
    os.chdir(domain(url).replace(":", "_"))
    try:
        while len(todo)>0:
            _main(todo, done) #(url + "/index.html") if not nondomain(url) else url)
    finally:
        os.chdir("../")

It is by no means perfect, but it's working well enough for my purposes, for now.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 11:33 am**

Update 2 for today: it's much improved and weird things like "urls" like "blah" are ignored (no dot), and it also uses already-downloaded files if possible:

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import os
from urllib.request import urlopen
from urllib.error import HTTPError, URLError
from http.client import InvalidURL
import sys
import re

def istextlike(url):
    return any(url.lower().endswith(ext) for ext in
               (".txt",".md",".html",".htm",".shtml"))

def _load(url):
    try:
        return urlopen(url).read() #.decode(errors="backslashreplace")
    except UnicodeEncodeError:
        raise URLError("invalid char in url")

def load(url):
    c = _load(url)
    if istextlike(url):
        c = re.sub(r"\\x([0-9a-f]{2})",lambda m:chr(int(m[1],16)),
                   c.decode(errors='backslashreplace'))
    return c

def loadlocal(url, file):
    c = file.read()
    if istextlike(url):
        c = re.sub(r"\\x([0-9a-f]{2})",lambda m:chr(int(m[1],16)),
                   c.decode(errors='backslashreplace'))
    return c

def get_links(url, page):
    narrowed = []
    for match in re.findall(r"""(?:
                                 (?:href|src)=
                                 (?P<quote1>['"])
                                  (?P<url1>.*?)
                                 (?P=quote1)
                                )|
                                (?:
                                 (?:url|open)\(
                                  (?P<quote2>['"])
                                   (?P<url2>.*?)
                                  (?P=quote2)
                                 \)
                                )|
                                (?:
                                 name\s*=\s*
                                 (?P<quote3>['"])
                                  (?P<url3>.*?)
                                 (?P=quote3)
                                )""",
                                   page, re.IGNORECASE | re.VERBOSE):
        link = match[1] or match[3] or match[5]
        if ("#" in link or
            "?" in link):
            continue
        relurl = nondomain(url).split("/")[:-1]
        curr = ["http://"+domain(url)]
        while link.startswith("."):
            relurl = relurl[:-1]
            link = "/".join(link.split("/")[1:])
        curr += relurl
        if link.startswith("http"):
            if domain(link) == domain(url):
                curr = [curr[0]] + nondomain(link).split("/")
            else:
                continue
        elif "." not in link:
            continue
        elif ("://" in link or
              link.startswith("mailto:")):
            continue
        elif "/" in link:
            if link.startswith("/"):
                curr = [curr[0]]
                link = link[1:]
            curr += link.split("/")
        else:
            curr += [link]
        narrowed.append("/".join(curr))
    return narrowed

def save_file(path, file):
    path = sanitizefilename(path)
    print("saving '" + path + "'...")
    if "/" in path:
        os.makedirs("/".join(path.split("/")[:-1]), exist_ok=True)
    try:
        with (open(path, "wb")) as f:
              #if isinstance(file, bytes)
              #else open(path, "w", errors="ignore")) as f:
            f.write(file if isinstance(file, bytes)
                    else file.encode())
    except PermissionError:
        pass

def sanitizefilename(path):
    path = path.strip()
    if path[-1] == "/":
        path += "index.html"
    return path.replace(":", "_")

def dhelp(url):
    return (url.lstrip("qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm").lstrip(":/")
                if "://" in url else #"./"+
                                     url).split("/")

def domain(url):
    return dhelp(url)[0]

def nondomain(url):
    return ("/".join(dhelp(url)[1:]) if len(dhelp(url)) else "")

def _main(todo, done):
    url = todo.pop(0)
    if url in done:
        return
    done.append(url)
    print(url)
    if os.path.exists(sanitizefilename(nondomain(url))):
        p = open(sanitizefilename(nondomain(url)), "rb")
        page = loadlocal(sanitizefilename(nondomain(url)), p)
    else:
        try:
            page = load(url)
        except HTTPError as err:
            if err.status//100==4:
                print(str(err.status) + ": " + url, file=sys.stderr)
                return
            raise
        except URLError as err:
            if True:#err.errno == -3:
                print("Failed with URLError: " + str(err.reason), file=sys.stderr)
            return
        except InvalidURL as err:
            print(err, file=sys.stderr)
            return
        if ((isinstance(page, str) and "</address>" not in page)
            or isinstance(page, bytes)):
            save_file(nondomain(url), page)
    if isinstance(page, bytes):
        return
    for link in get_links(url, page):
        if nondomain(link):
            todo.append(link)#_main(link)

def main(url):
    done = []
    todo = [url]
    os.makedirs(sanitizefilename(domain(url)), exist_ok=True)
    os.chdir(sanitizefilename(domain(url)))
    try:
        while len(todo)>0:
            _main(todo, done) #(url + "/index.html") if not nondomain(url) else url)
    finally:
        os.chdir("../")

Posted: **Fri Jul 28, 2023 9:00 am**

may i suggest beautifulsoup? manually parsing html is possible, i've done it, but it's almost always simpler to just have someone else's code do it for you.

Posted: **Fri Jul 28, 2023 11:19 am**

why bother...
to make my conlang more memorable and lively, I tend not to archive anything...
reinventing the wheel every day makes it possible to have a conlangue as a second language,
even if it's a particular language that you don't speak much and wouldn't understand orally...

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