HTML-Parser

Custom HTML parser for SpongeBob episode transcripts for every SpongeBob episode. There's a character variable ,CHARACTER, in the source that you can modify for it to grab lines of other SpongeBob characters.

I haven't tried this, but maybe it can work for other content on the same website if you prompt with correct episode name???

Pre reqs

• Python
• dependencies:
  • time (you can delete this if you don't want to time it)
    • pip install time
  • requests (used for http requests)
    • pip install requests
  • multiprocessing (paralle processing for the parsing, cut time down by number of cores available (ie 80 seconds to 10 seconds)

Usage

• Python3 won't work with requests (at least the one im using)
  • print lines to stdout
    • python scape.py
  • redirect stdout to a file
    • python scape.py >> file.txt

IMPORTANT NOTES

• There's no uppercase words in the dialogue, there's only bolded words in the dialogue which implies that it means it's supposed to be when the character raises their voice, yell, etc. I purposely left the HTML for bolded words that are dialogue in the standard output.
• What this means is every single piece of dialogue will be extracted, however, instead of capitalizing the bolded parts, I left it in just in case there's another interpretation.
• So.. either add in a few extra lines during parsing to change it to uppercase, or whatever you want to change it into. I haven't written the code yet, but when I do I'll push the update here and update this section

Misc

• I didn't write this to be the most maintainable. I tried my best for obvious cases like parsing, processes, passing variable inputs (ie http request URLs), etc, but my main goal is to get the job done quickly so I didn't boilerplate as much code as I would for a more crucial program. After all this is just for getting data, it's step 0 for me, so I don't want to spend too many hours on this.
  • On that note, if you can't understand anything, shoot me a DM on discord, because I haven't seen ANY parsers for these and I think it's super useful.