https://github.com/abdnh/farlex-scraper

A Python script to scrape quizzes from The Farlex Grammar Book
https://github.com/abdnh/farlex-scraper

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A Python script to scrape quizzes from The Farlex Grammar Book

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/abdnh/farlex-scraper
• Owner: abdnh
• License: cc0-1.0
• Created: 2022-04-12T01:16:56.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-04-12T02:07:42.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-24T07:29:50.669Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: farlex, scraper
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 4.88 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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A Python script to scrape quizzes from [The Farlex Grammar Book](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/The-Farlex-Grammar-Book.htm).

## Usage

```

$ python farlex.py --help

usage: farlex.py [-h] [--page PAGE | --section {1,2,3}]

optional arguments:

  -h, --help         show this help message and exit

  --page PAGE        download a specific page by its URL slug (e.g. Parts-of-Speech)

  --section {1,2,3}  download a whole section by its number (1: Grammar, 2: Punctuation, 3: Spelling and Pronunciation)

```

Quizzes are written in CSV format to the quizzes directory as `(question, answer, page_url)`.

Mainly meant to be imported to [Anki](https://apps.ankiweb.net/).

Downloaded pages are cached in the pages directory.