Scripts for scraping the raw XML of texts in the Perseus Greek Collection. List correct as of December 2017.
Text is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-SA 3.0 US)
Code is released under an MIT License.
To run, use the command python downloadTexts.py (using python 3).
Results are stored in the perseus_texts folder . A list of available texts is included in available.js, and each file contains a JSON Object with
- The Author's name
- The Text's name
- The number of books
- A list of books with the raw XML (or a concatenation of raw XMLs) for that book.
A zip file of the texts is includes as perseus_texts.zip.