TV Week is a weekly periodical published by Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) between 1967 to 1997 in Hong Kong. For more information of the periodical, visit: https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hk/香港電視_(雜誌). A total of 1556 issues have been published.
The digitized version of the periodicals are available on《中港電視。電影刊物資料庫》, Hong Kong Baptist University Library (Digital Initiative & Research Cluster).
https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/film-tv/
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107791631
https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/api/tvweek/
The API returns the following output (by issues):
- issue number
- published date
- URL of cover page thumbnail image (345 x 500 px)
- list of keywords indexed from the contents
- URL of digitized version on 《中港電視。電影刊物資料庫》(HKBU Library)
Sample 1: Named Entity Recognition (NER) of Chinese keywords from a specific issue (#118) using Stanza Python package created by Stanford NLP Group (https://stanfordnlp.github.io/stanza/).
import stanza
import requests
import re
url = "https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/api/tvweek/?issueNumber=118"
r = requests.get(url)
data = r.json()
wordlist = data['Results'][0]['keywords']
nlp = stanza.Pipeline(lang='zh', processors='tokenize,ner',tokenize_pretokenized=True)
english_check = re.compile(r'[a-z]')
for w in wordlist:
if not(english_check.match(w)):
doc = nlp(w)
if(len(doc.sentences[0].ents))>0:
print("Text: " + doc.sentences[0].ents[0].text + "\t\t Entity: " + doc.sentences[0].ents[0].type)
The result of the Python program outputs a list of keywords from issue #118 and the recognized entity name.
Sample 2: Face recognition on multiple cover thumbnail images using OpenCV image recognition package (https://opencv.org/) .
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import cv2
import requests
from urllib.request import urlopen
import numpy as np
# Load the face cascade for CV2 processing
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
url = "https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/api/tvweek/?startIssueNumber=1150&endIssueNumber=1155"
r = requests.get(url)
data = r.json()
for result in data['Results']:
cover_img = result['coverThumbnail']
req = urlopen(cover_img)
arr = np.asarray(bytearray(req.read()), dtype=np.uint8)
img = cv2.imdecode(arr, -1) # 'Load it as it is'
#img = cv2.imread(cover_img)
# Convert image into grayscale
img = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_RGB2GRAY)
# Detect faces and draw rectangle around the faces
faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray, 1.1, 4)
for (x, y, w, h) in faces:
cv2.rectangle(img, (x, y), (x+w, y+h), (0, 255, 0), 2)
# Display the output
plt.imshow(img)
plt.show()
The result of the Python program outputs images with green bounding boxes on detected faces.
The following examples show how to use different query parameters to output data of specific issues from the dataset.
Example 1: Results returned by specific issue number (#1088):
https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/api/tvweek/?issueNumber=1088
{
"totalResults": 1,
"Results": [
{
"issueNumber": 1088,
"publishedDate": "1988-09-08T00:00:00Z",
"coverThumbnail": "https:\/\/storage.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/tvweek\/Thumbnail\/1088\/1088_001.jpg",
"keywords": [
"奧林匹克運動會",
"白金巨星耀保良",
"劉嘉玲",
"呂方",
...
...
"味之素",
"和春堂",
"哥倫比亞電影公司",
"哥羅廸巴里"
],
"url": "https:\/\/digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/film-tv\/magazines\/yes\/years\/1988\/books\/1088"
}
]
}
Example 2: Results returned by specific range of issue numbers (#130 - #135):
https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/api/tvweek/?startIssueNumber=130&endIssueNumber=135
{
"totalResults": 6,
"Results": [
{
"issueNumber": 130,
"publishedDate": "1970-05-05T00:00:00Z",
"coverThumbnail": "https:\/\/storage.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/tvweek\/Thumbnail\/130\/130_001.jpg",
"keywords": [
"沈殿霞",
"神偷諜影",
...
"張瑛",
"張英才"
],
"url": "https:\/\/digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/film-tv\/magazines\/yes\/years\/1970\/books\/130"
},
{
"issueNumber": 131,
"publishedDate": "1970-05-12T00:00:00Z",
"coverThumbnail": "https:\/\/storage.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/tvweek\/Thumbnail\/131\/131_001.jpg",
"keywords": [
"歡樂今宵",
"張瑛",
...
"安杜披雲",
"安東尼巴素"
],
"url": "https:\/\/digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/film-tv\/magazines\/yes\/years\/1970\/books\/131"
},
{
"issueNumber": 132,
"publishedDate": "1970-05-19T00:00:00Z",
"coverThumbnail": "https:\/\/storage.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/tvweek\/Thumbnail\/132\/132_001.jpg",
"keywords": [
"歡樂今宵",
"歡樂家庭",
...
"安鐸",
"宋惠慈"
],
"url": "https:\/\/digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/film-tv\/magazines\/yes\/years\/1970\/books\/132"
},
{
"issueNumber": 133,
"publishedDate": "1970-05-26T00:00:00Z",
"coverThumbnail": "https:\/\/storage.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/tvweek\/Thumbnail\/133\/133_001.jpg",
"keywords": [
"歡樂今宵",
"兒童節目",
...
"夢會牡丹亭",
"奇蓮伊士活"
],
"url": "https:\/\/digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/film-tv\/magazines\/yes\/years\/1970\/books\/133"
},
{
"issueNumber": 134,
"publishedDate": "1970-06-02T00:00:00Z",
"coverThumbnail": "https:\/\/storage.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/tvweek\/Thumbnail\/134\/134_001.jpg",
"keywords": [
"歡樂今宵",
"羅拔韋納",
...
"大衛白賴仁",
"大衛花拉"
],
"url": "https:\/\/digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/film-tv\/magazines\/yes\/years\/1970\/books\/134"
},
{
"issueNumber": 135,
"publishedDate": "1970-06-09T00:00:00Z",
"coverThumbnail": "https:\/\/storage.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/tvweek\/Thumbnail\/135\/135_001.jpg",
"keywords": [
"歡樂今宵",
"劉家傑",
...
"喧尼斯鮑寧",
"噢多可愛的戰爭"
],
"url": "https:\/\/digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/film-tv\/magazines\/yes\/years\/1970\/books\/135"
}
]
}
Example 3: Results returned by specific range of published date (01 March 1985 - 31 December 1985):
https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/api/tvweek/?startDate=1985-03-01&endDate=1985-12-31
{
"totalResults": 43,
"Results": [
{
"issueNumber": 905,
"publishedDate": "1985-03-07T00:00:00Z",
"coverThumbnail": "https:\/\/storage.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/tvweek\/Thumbnail\/905\/905_001.jpg",
"keywords": [
"婦女新姿",
"汪明荃",
...
"夢幻之旋律",
"大地旅運社"
],
"url": "https:\/\/digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/film-tv\/magazines\/yes\/years\/1985\/books\/905"
},
{
"issueNumber": 906,
"publishedDate": "1985-03-14T00:00:00Z",
"coverThumbnail": "https:\/\/storage.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/tvweek\/Thumbnail\/906\/906_001.jpg",
"keywords": [
"歡樂今宵",
"張國榮",
...
"奧莉花紐頓莊",
"奪標"
],
"url": "https:\/\/digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/film-tv\/magazines\/yes\/years\/1985\/books\/906"
},
...
...
{
"issueNumber": 923,
"publishedDate": "1985-07-11T00:00:00Z",
"coverThumbnail": "https:\/\/storage.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/tvweek\/Thumbnail\/923\/923_001.jpg",
"keywords": [
"新秀歌唱大賽",
"婦女新姿",
...
"何文匯",
"保治靈"
],
"url": "https:\/\/digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/film-tv\/magazines\/yes\/years\/1985\/books\/923"
},
{
"issueNumber": 924,
"publishedDate": "1985-07-18T00:00:00Z",
"coverThumbnail": "https:\/\/storage.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/tvweek\/Thumbnail\/924\/924_001.jpg",
"keywords": [
"歡樂今宵",
"香港電視",
...
"周生生珠寶金行有限公司",
"周繩武"
],
"url": "https:\/\/digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/film-tv\/magazines\/yes\/years\/1985\/books\/924"
}
]
}
Note that each API query only returns a JSON result of 20 issues. To return more issues, use limit parameter
https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/api/tvweek/?start=0&limit=300
Using a combination of limit and start parameters, one can also applies pagniation when scraping the dataset:
https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/api/tvweek/?start=0&limit=10
https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/api/tvweek/?start=11&limit=10
https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/api/tvweek/?start=21&limit=10
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