import urllib.request # library for connecting to a URL and getting it's content
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # library for parsing the HTML - requires python3-bs4 package
import string # handy predefined shortcuts which saves us time rather than enumerating letters by hand
import json # we are going to output the finished dictionary as JSON since it's easy to work with
import time
letterindex_urls = [] # we initialize an empty list that we will populate with entires below
dict_base_url = "https://av1611.com/kjbp/kjv-dictionary/"
finished_dictionary = {}
# This function takes a list of HTML tags separated into a list, one tag per list element.
# The result is a dictionary where the key is a string, the word, and the value is a list
# with corresponding values as a list. Words with one definition will have a single
# element list, whereas words with multiple definitions will have a multi-element list.
def tags_to_dict(tags):
h2_keys = [] # temporary key storage so we remember our last key when we iterate
# through multiple word definitions
result = {} # an empty dictionary where we will store our words and definitions
for element in tags:
soup = BeautifulSoup(element, "lxml") # it's easier to use new soup instance for this. Not fast.
if soup.h2: # is our element a header? (key)
result[soup.h2.text] = [] # initialize a new dictionary key with an empty list
h2_keys.append(soup.h2.text) # store our key temporarily until the next key
elif soup.find_all('p'): # get our list of definitions in paragraph tags
for r in soup.find_all('p'): # We need to add each paragraph tag (definition)
result[h2_keys[-1]].append(r.text) # Add it to the LAST key we used (-1)
return result
for letter in string.ascii_uppercase: # for A, B, C..... assign "letter = A" ... "B"... etc
letterindex_urls.append("https://av1611.com/kjbp/kjv-dictionary/index-{}.html".format(letter))
# add https://.../index-A.html .... B.html .... C.html... to the list
# now letterindex_urls has URLS for A-Z for us to use.
word_urls = [] # we are going to store the results of our parsed indexes here
# This for loop will first get all the html document name that we will need to grab
for url in letterindex_urls: # for every URL in our list we just made....
print("Getting URL: {}".format(url))
response = urllib.request.urlopen(url) # grab the HTML as a response object
html_str = response.read().decode('UTF-8') # this is the actual text of the response as a string
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_str, "lxml")
#
# all word URLS are located in the
# we can search for this tag, and it returns a 1-element list containing the html in question
# It is not iterable (each line as one entry) and it returns as a "tag" datatype, so we must
# get the first element in the list (zero) and cast that to a normal string, which can be used
# to parse it again and only get the actual links, since doing it again will result in something
# that is both filtered for the references we want, and also iterable.
str_of_links = str(soup.find_all("div", {"role":"main"})[0])
soup2 = BeautifulSoup(str_of_links, "lxml")
for link in soup2.find_all('a'):
word_urls.append(dict_base_url + link.get('href'))
for word_url in word_urls:
time.sleep(0.2) # try to slow down a little bit, rate limit so we don't cause excess load
# on us or the av1611 web server.
print("Getting URL: {}".format(word_url))
response = urllib.request.urlopen(word_url) # grab the HTML as a response object
html_str = response.read().decode('UTF-8') # this is the actual text of the response as a string
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_str, "lxml")
#
# all definition and variation data is located in the
# The format is
(word)
(word_def)
(word_var_2)
(word_var_2_def)
(word_var_2_def_2)...
# for as many variations as there are. See "addict" for variations like addicted/addicting/etc.
str_of_tags = str(soup.find_all("div", {"role":"main"})[0])
list_of_tags = str_of_tags.split("\n")
word_definitions = tags_to_dict(list_of_tags)
print("Progress: {}".format(word_definitions.keys()))
finished_dictionary.update(word_definitions)
with open("1828_Webster_KJV.json", 'w') as output:
json.dump(finished_dictionary, output)