Aravot.am

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

• Most likely English and Russian articles do not exist.

• Cannot access the parent directories

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