Show HN: I built a syllable dictionary using Python and web scraping
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Re: Show HN: I built a syllable dictionary using Python and web scraping
#2Did you try to contact 'www.howmanysyllables.com' before? To see if they would give you the informations. So you don't have to scrape their website.
Re: Show HN: I built a syllable dictionary using Python and web scraping
#3Did you try to contact 'www.howmanysyllables.com' before? To see if they would give you the informations. So you don't have to scrape their website.
No, didn't think to do that. Part of the reason I went to all this trouble, though, was to go through the process of building something myself, that I could run myself--and that, by extension, anyone else could do, too.
Re: Show HN: I built a syllable dictionary using Python and web scraping
#4didn't you encounter problems when scraping? Would something like proxycrawl.com help?