Scraping "Adventure Time" Transcripts

Code along on scraping the transcripts for the show "Adventure Time" from the fan-made site https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/Category_talk%3ATranscripts

Second day 2019-08-02

Recording: https://youtu.be/5GDP9ElGt7c

We continued to in formalizing our process to scraping one episode so it will be easier to apply this to scrape all episode transcripts.

• Creating a function all is needed to scrape is simply passing the transcript URL
• Preparing data to be stored
• Next time:
  • Use RegEx to find and save action descriptions
  • Create a (tidy) database of episode transcript information

First day 2019-07-26

Testing out how to scrape the first episode's transcript and loading it into a data frame.

Recording: https://youtu.be/137SOCvr4vg

• Made soup from first episode's transcript page: (Slumber Party Panic)[https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/Slumber_Party_Panic/Transcript]
• Identified the "speaker" (extra narrative info or character)
• Removed extra white space
• Saved into a DataFrame