Aravot.am
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Index
How to get to the index of each day and where the main archive page is.
1998 - 2000
Armenian
- Main archive page : http://archive.aravot.am/index_arc.html
Articles by date
- Template : http://archive.aravot.am/[year]/[month]/[day]/index_[month][day].html
ie: http://archive.aravot.am/1999/dectember/22/index_dec22.html'
2000
Armenian
- Main archive page : http://archive.aravot.am/arc_00_01.htm
Articles by date
- Template : http://archive.aravot.am/2000new/aravot_arm/[month]/[day]/aravot_index.htm
ie : http://archive.aravot.am/2000new/aravot_arm/oktember/20/aravot_index.htm
- Note: Beware of spelling of some months: October = oktember
2001
Armenian
- Main archive page : http://archive.aravot.am/arc_00_01.htm
Articles by date
- Template : http://archive.aravot.am/2001/aravot_arm/[month]/[day]/aravot_index.htmItalic text
ie : http://archive.aravot.am/2001/aravot_arm/january/13/aravot_index.htm
2002 - 2003
Armenian
- Main archive page : http://archive.aravot.am/aravot_arc_2002.htm
Articles by date
- Template : http://archive.aravot.am/[year]/aravot_arm/[month]/[day]/aravot_index.htm
ie : http://archive.aravot.am/2002/aravot_arm/February/7/aravot_index.htm
ie : http://archive.aravot.am/2003/aravot_arm/January/15/aravot_index.htm
- Note for 1998 - 2003
- English and Russian articles most likely, do not exist.
- The parent directories cannot be accessed, so it is not for certain.
ie : http://archive.aravot.am/2003
2004 - 2011 October
- 2004
- Main archive page : http://www.aravot.am/aravot_arc_2004.htm
- 2005 - 2011
- Main archive page : http://www.aravot.am/aravot_arc.htm
Articles by date
- Template http://www.aravot.am/[year]/aravot_[language]/[month]/[date]/aravot_index.htm
[language] is one of the following: arm, eng, rus
Examples
Armenian
http://www.aravot.am/2004/aravot_arm/December/4/aravot_index.htm
English
http://www.aravot.am/2004/aravot_eng/December/4/aravot_index.htm
Russian
http://www.aravot.am/2004/aravot_rus/December/4/aravot_index.htm
2011 October 21 - Present
Articles by date
- Template :http://www.aravot.am/[lang]/[year]/[month]/[day]/[articleNumber]/
ie : http://www.aravot.am/en/2011/12/26/21854/
Examples
English
http://www.aravot.am/en/2011/12/26/21854/
Russian
http://www.aravot.am/ru/2011/12/26/21854/
Armenian
http://www.aravot.am/2011/12/26/21854/
- Note: For Armenian, [lang] is taken out
- Note: Not all articles exist in all three languages (as shown in the examples)
Scraping
1998 - 2003
Difficulty: Medium
- The only language found is Armenian.
- Start at the index.htm of each date.
- Parse for any links to articles.
- Sometime these articles are only summaries of a few. So you would have to search for possible links within each of these.
Example
- index.htm
http://archive.aravot.am/2001/aravot_arm/january/13/aravot_index.htm
- First link on the left goes directly to an article
http://archive.aravot.am/2001/aravot_arm/january/13/aravot_index.htm
- Second link goes to a summary page
http://archive.aravot.am/2001/aravot_arm/january/13/aravot_politik.htm
2004 - 2011
Difficulty: Hard
- Articles can be in Armenian, Russian or English, but not every article is in every language.
- There are also some huge holes in the archive for languages other than Armenian
- 2004, English only has 2 months
http://www.aravot.am/2004/aravot_eng/
- Easy to download all the articles from one day
- Difficult to match article to article form different languages
- File names for the same articles are not always the same
- Some articles exist in one language but not the other
- Index page are not always the same either
http://www.aravot.am/2004/aravot_arm/December/4/aravot_index.htm
http://www.aravot.am/2004/aravot_eng/December/4/aravot_index.htm
2011 October 21 - Present
Difficulty: Easy
- Giving a range of dates, go to an archive of each day in all three languages.
Example
http://www.aravot.am/ru/2011/12/26/
- Scrape all the article links, then find the article full text
- Save html with date, language, article number
- Try to match articles with same date and article number.
- Using only article number should be safe enough, but date would make them more unique