Adds medium_offline python script

medium_offline/README.md

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+A simple python script download latest articles from medium topicwise and save them in text files.
+
+It basically scrapes the site using requests and bs4 modules. I (@CoolSonu39) made it just for fun after I read Automate the Boring Stuff with Python by Al Sweigart.

medium_offline/helpers.py

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+import requests, bs4
+
+def get_topic():
+	'''Get a topic to download from user.'''
+
+	topic_list = ['comics', 'books', 'art', 'culture', 'film', 'food', 'gaming', 'humor', 'internet-culture', 'lit', 'medium-magazine', 'music', 'photography', 'social-media', 'sports', 'style', 'true-crime', 'tv', 'writing', 'business', 'design', 'economy', 'startups', 'freelancing', 'leadersip', 'marketing', 'productivity', 'work', 'artificial-intelligence', 'blockchain', 'cryptocurrency', 'cybersecurity', 'data-science', 'gadgets', 'javascript', 'macine-learning', 'math', 'neuroscience', 'programming', 'science', 'self-driving-cars', 'software-engineering', 'space', 'technology', 'visual-design', 'addiction', 'creativity', 'disability', 'family', 'health', 'mental-health', 'parenting', 'personal-finance', 'pets', 'psychedelics', 'psychology', 'relationships', 'self', 'sexuality', 'spirituality', 'travel', 'wellness', 'basic-income', 'cities', 'education', 'environment', 'equality', 'future', 'gun-control', 'history', 'justice', 'language', 'lgbtqia', 'media', 'masculinity', 'philosophy', 'politics', 'race', 'religion', 'san-francisco', 'transportation', 'women', 'world']
+	print('Welcome to Medium aricle downloader by @CoolSonu39!')
+	choice = 'some-random-topic'
+	print('Which domain do you want to read today?')
+	while choice not in topic_list:
+	    print("Enter 'list' to see the list of topics.")
+	    choice = input('Enter your choice: ')
+	    if choice == 'list':
+	        print()
+	        for i in topic_list:
+	            print(i)
+	        print()
+	    elif choice not in topic_list:
+	        print('\nTopic' + choice + 'not found :(')
+	return choice
+
+
+def extract_links(url):
+	'''Extract article links from url'''
+
+	html_response = requests.get(url)
+	parsed_response = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html_response.text, features='html5lib')
+	article_list = parsed_response.select('h3 > a')
+	return article_list
+
+
+def medium_text(url):
+	'''Extract text from a medium article link.'''
+
+	html_response = requests.get(url)
+	parsed_response = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html_response.text, features='html5lib')
+	tag_list = parsed_response.find_all(['h1', 'p', 'h2'])
+
+	extracted_text = ''
+	for j in range(len(tag_list)):
+		extracted_text += tag_list[j].getText() + '\n\n'
+
+	return extracted_text

medium_offline/medium.py

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+import requests, bs4
+from helpers import *
+
+choice = get_topic()    
+print('\nGetting latest article links from %s...' % (choice))
+
+article_list = extract_links('https://medium.com/topic/' + choice)
+print('Total articles found: ' + str(len(article_list)))
+
+for i in range(len(article_list)):
+    heading = article_list[i].getText()
+    artlink = article_list[i].get('href')
+    artlink = artlink if artlink.startswith("https://") else "https://medium.com" + artlink
+    print('Downloading article: ' + str(i+1))
+
+    # remove invalid characters from filename
+    file_name = f"{heading}.txt".replace(':', '').replace('?', '')
+    file = open(file_name, 'w')
+
+    article_text = medium_text(artlink)
+    file.write(article_text)
+    file.close()
+
+print('Done.')