User:ABSHK/GSoC21/Log

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Revision as of 02:30, 13 June 2021 by ABSHK (talk | contribs) (Coding Period (June 7 - August 16))

Development Log for Gsoc'21

Community Bonding Period (May 17 - June 6)

  • May 17 - May 23
    • Made a prototype script to download the User Manual from WikiBooks.
  • May 24 - May 31
    • Learnt to use cmake and how to execute a .py script using add_custom_command.
  • June 1 - June 7
    • Went through WikiMedia's rules for using their API. Learnt about the URL-Headers to use while accessing the WikiBooks API.

Coding Period (June 7 - August 16)

  • Week - 1 (June 7 - June 13)
    • Started with making the .py script
    • Implemented function prototypes
    • Made function getPage() to download the page given at the url using the WikiMedia API.
    • Made function getFooter() to add footer to the HTML pages with proper attribution (CC-BY-SA-3.0).
    • Made function cleanSoup() to remove the redundant HTML tags from the pages.
    • Made function getUrl() to get clean, formatted URLs.