To create a script that scrapes audio files and metadata from BBC Radio 4 schedules and uploads them to the Internet Archive, you need to perform web scraping and then upload the collected data. Below is an example of how you can achieve this using Python:
Step 1: Set Up Required Libraries
Install the necessary libraries:
pip install requests beautifulsoup4 lxml
Step 2: Scrape Audio Files and Metadata
First, create a script to scrape the audio URLs and metadata from the BBC Radio 4 schedules.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import json
# URL of the BBC Radio 4 schedule
schedule_url = 'https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/schedules/bbc_radio_fourfm'
def scrape_bbc_radio_schedule(url):
response = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'lxml')
listings = []
# Scrape schedule details
for item in soup.find_all('div', class_='programme'):
title = item.find('h3').text.strip()
time = item.find('span', class_='broadcast__time').text.strip()
description = item.find('p', class_='programme__synopsis').text.strip() if item.find('p', class_='programme__synopsis') else 'No description available'
audio_url = item.find('a', class_='programme__link')['href']
listings.append({
'title': title,
'time': time,
'description': description,
'audio_url': audio_url
})
return listings
listings = scrape_bbc_radio_schedule(schedule_url)
print(json.dumps(listings, indent=4))
Step 3: Download Audio Files
Modify the script to download the audio files from the retrieved URLs.
import os
def download_audio(listings):
for listing in listings:
audio_response = requests.get(listing['audio_url'])
filename = f"{listing['title']}.mp3"
with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
f.write(audio_response.content)
listing['filename'] = filename
download_audio(listings)
Step 4: Upload to Internet Archive
Use the Internet Archive API to upload the audio files and metadata.
def upload_to_internet_archive(listing, username, password):
metadata = {
'collection': 'opensource_audio',
'title': listing['title'],
'description': listing['description'],
'creator': 'BBC Radio 4',
'subject': 'Radio',
'licenseurl': 'http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/'
}
session = requests.Session()
session.auth = (username, password)
files = {
'file': open(listing['filename'], 'rb')
}
response = session.put(f'https://s3.us.archive.org/{listing["title"]}/{listing["filename"]}', files=files)
print(response.status_code, response.text)
metadata_url = f'https://archive.org/metadata/{listing["title"]}'
response = session.post(metadata_url, data=metadata)
print(response.status_code, response.text)
username = 'YOUR_ARCHIVE_USERNAME'
password = 'YOUR_ARCHIVE_PASSWORD'
for listing in listings:
upload_to_internet_archive(listing, username, password)
Summary
This script scrapes audio files and metadata from BBC Radio 4 schedules, downloads the audio files, and uploads them to the Internet Archive. Replace the placeholders with your actual Internet Archive credentials. You may need to adjust the scraping logic based on the structure of the BBC website.
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