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Title: Saturday Hacking
Date: 2022-02-19
Device: Laptop
Mood: Relaxed
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I don't know where the day has gone. I had a
little lie-in today, I woke up at about 0800 which
was nice. The weather has been wild here today;
when I woke up it was incredibly windy, then we
cycles through hail, about two hours of snow, and
now it's sunny and back to 7 celcius.

I've spent most of the day working on some BBC
News scraper code. I've previously tackled this
with various libraries to do article
identification (similar to readability.js), but
this time I decided to take a straight
scrape-and-parse-the-HTML approach, and it's been
a lot more successful. Previously I would have
problems with things like subheadline
identification, or identifying when some text is
an image caption or a pull-quote, rather than body
text. Using CSS selectors seems to give the
control which I wanted, and actually the code is
vanishingly small; only about 12 lines of
BeautifulSoup code among the rest of the
boilerplate.

My original intention was to generate some bare
HTML, so I can read the next distraction-free on
my laptop, but then I realised it would be easier
to just publish some plain-text and read it using
w3m, with a Gophermap as the index:

    gopher://sdf.org/1/users/cside/bbc/

I'm still a complete Gopher noob, so I'm sure
there are improvements to be made here; I'd love
suggestions if anyone finds this useful. Email me
[email protected] if you have some.

Question: How do I use hyphens as section breaks
or heading underlines in a gophermap? Like
this:

Heading
-------

I've read the spec and I can't figure out what I'm
doing wrong.

--C

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