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forth_bootslop/fetch_notes.py
2026-02-19 16:09:48 -05:00

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import csv
import os
import requests
from markdownify import markdownify as md
NOTES_CSV = "C:/projects/forth/bootslop/references/FORTH_NOTES.csv"
BLOG_CSV = "C:/projects/forth/bootslop/references/TimothyLottesBlog.csv"
OUT_DIR = "C:/projects/forth/bootslop/references/ForthNotes"
os.makedirs(OUT_DIR, exist_ok=True)
# Load URLs we already processed in TimothyLottesBlog.csv
ignored_urls = set()
if os.path.exists(BLOG_CSV):
with open(BLOG_CSV, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
reader = csv.reader(f)
for row in reader:
if len(row) >= 2:
ignored_urls.add(row[1].strip())
def is_relevant(title, url):
# Ignore YouTube as it's not useful to scrape HTML for them
if "youtube.com" in url or "youtu.be" in url:
return False
# Ignore PDFs (requires special handling)
if url.endswith(".pdf"):
return False
# Ignore twitter (requires JS/auth)
if "x.com" in url or "twitter.com" in url:
return False
return True
with open(NOTES_CSV, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
reader = csv.reader(f)
next(reader, None) # Skip header
for row in reader:
if len(row) < 2:
continue
title = row[0].strip()
url = row[1].strip()
if url in ignored_urls:
continue
if not is_relevant(title, url):
print(f"Skipping unsupported/media link: {title} ({url})")
continue
# Clean up title for filename
filename = "".join(c for c in title if c.isalnum() or c in (' ', '-', '_')).strip()
filename = filename.replace(' ', '_') + ".md"
out_path = os.path.join(OUT_DIR, filename)
if os.path.exists(out_path):
print(f"Already exists: {filename}")
continue
print(f"Fetching: {title} from {url}")
try:
# Set a user-agent to avoid simple anti-bot blocks
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36'}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=10)
response.raise_for_status()
# Convert HTML to markdown
markdown_text = md(response.text, heading_style="ATX")
with open(out_path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as out_f:
out_f.write(f"# {title}\n\n")
out_f.write(f"**Source:** {url}\n\n")
out_f.write(markdown_text)
print(f"Saved: {filename}")
except Exception as e:
print(f"Failed to fetch {title}: {e}")