RocketReviews / scripts /plans /01_scrape.py
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
scrape_plans.py — Fetch the RocketReviews.com plans index and scrape each
detail page, saving structured JSON to source/plans/.
Output
------
source/plans/index.jsonl one record per plan (raw index fields)
source/plans/detail/{slug}.json full parsed detail per plan
Usage
-----
python scripts/plans/01_scrape.py
python scripts/plans/01_scrape.py --delay 1.0 --limit 10
python scripts/plans/01_scrape.py --force # re-scrape existing files
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import logging
import re
import sys
import time
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Optional
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter
from urllib3.util.retry import Retry
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Config
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
BASE_URL = "https://www.rocketreviews.com"
INDEX_URL = f"{BASE_URL}/rocketry-plans.html"
USER_AGENT = "RocketReviews-Dataset/1.0"
DEFAULT_DELAY = 1.0
ROOT = Path(__file__).parent.parent.parent
SOURCE_DIR = ROOT / "source" / "plans"
DETAIL_DIR = SOURCE_DIR / "detail"
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Logging
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
logging.basicConfig(
level=logging.INFO,
format="%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(message)s",
handlers=[logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)],
)
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# HTTP session
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def _build_session() -> requests.Session:
s = requests.Session()
s.headers["User-Agent"] = USER_AGENT
retry = Retry(
total=3,
backoff_factor=2.0,
status_forcelist=[429, 500, 502, 503, 504],
allowed_methods=["GET"],
)
s.mount("https://", HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retry))
s.mount("http://", HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retry))
return s
class RateLimiter:
def __init__(self, delay: float) -> None:
self.delay = delay
self._last: float = 0.0
def wait(self) -> None:
elapsed = time.monotonic() - self._last
if elapsed < self.delay:
time.sleep(self.delay - elapsed)
self._last = time.monotonic()
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Parsing helpers
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def _slug_from_path(path: str) -> str:
"""
Extract the slug from a url path.
e.g. '/1940-exploratory-planetary-cargo-ferry-180703114912.html' ->
'1940-exploratory-planetary-cargo-ferry'
"""
name = path.lstrip("/").removesuffix(".html")
# Remove trailing -NNNNNNNNNNNN timestamp (12-digit numeric suffix)
name = re.sub(r"-\d{10,}$", "", name)
return name
def _parse_index(html: str) -> list[dict]:
"""
Parse the rocketry-plans.html static page and return one record
per plan from the main data table.
"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "lxml")
records = []
# The plans table is typically the last large table on the page
tables = soup.find_all("table")
table = tables[-1] if tables else None
if not table:
log.warning("Could not find the plans table on the index page.")
return records
# Skip the header row
for row in table.find_all("tr")[1:]:
cells = row.find_all(["td", "th"])
if len(cells) < 5:
continue
# 1: Source, 2: Title (link to detail), 3: Style, 4: Site (external link)
source = cells[1].get_text(strip=True) or None
title_a = cells[2].find("a")
title_trunc = title_a.get_text(strip=True) if title_a else cells[2].get_text(strip=True)
detail_path = title_a["href"] if title_a and title_a.has_attr("href") else None
# Skip if there's no detail page link to use as an identifier
if not detail_path:
continue
detail_url = detail_path if detail_path.startswith("http") else f"{BASE_URL}{detail_path}"
slug = _slug_from_path(detail_path)
style = cells[3].get_text(strip=True) or None
site_a = cells[4].find("a")
site_name = site_a.get_text(strip=True) if site_a else cells[4].get_text(strip=True)
external_url = site_a["href"] if site_a and site_a.has_attr("href") else None
# In case it's just plain text without a link, normalize empty string to None
if not site_name:
site_name = None
records.append({
"slug": slug,
"title_truncated": title_trunc,
"source": source,
"style": style,
"site": {
"name": site_name,
"url": external_url
},
"url": detail_url
})
return records
def _parse_detail(html: str, index_rec: dict) -> dict:
"""Merge index-level fields with full title from the detail page."""
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "lxml")
# Try to extract the full title from the h1 on the detail page
h1 = soup.find("h1")
full_title = None
if h1:
# Example: "Rocketry Plans/Instructions - Model Rocket News 1940 Exploratory Planetary Cargo Ferry"
raw_h1 = h1.get_text(strip=True)
full_title = re.sub(r"^Rocketry Plans/Instructions\s*-\s*", "", raw_h1, flags=re.I).strip()
# If the h1 wasn't found or was weird, fall back to what we had
if not full_title:
full_title = index_rec.get("title_truncated")
# Exclude title_truncated from the final output and replace with full title
out_rec = {k: v for k, v in index_rec.items() if k != "title_truncated"}
return {
**out_rec,
"title": full_title,
"scraped_at": datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"),
}
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Fetch helpers
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def fetch_index(session: requests.Session) -> list[dict]:
log.info("Fetching plans index from %s", INDEX_URL)
resp = session.get(INDEX_URL, timeout=30)
resp.raise_for_status()
records = _parse_index(resp.text)
log.info("Index returned %d records.", len(records))
return records
def scrape_detail(
session: requests.Session,
rate: RateLimiter,
index_rec: dict,
force: bool = False,
) -> Optional[dict]:
slug = index_rec["slug"]
shard = slug[0].lower() if slug else "_"
shard_dir = DETAIL_DIR / shard
dest = shard_dir / f"{slug}.json"
if dest.exists() and not force:
log.debug("Already scraped %s, skipping.", slug)
return None
url = index_rec["url"]
rate.wait()
try:
resp = session.get(url, timeout=30)
resp.raise_for_status()
except requests.RequestException as exc:
log.warning("Failed to fetch plan %s: %s", slug, exc)
return None
return _parse_detail(resp.text, index_rec)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Main
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def main() -> None:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Scrape RocketReviews.com plans.")
parser.add_argument(
"--delay",
type=float,
default=DEFAULT_DELAY,
help=f"Seconds between requests (default: {DEFAULT_DELAY})",
)
parser.add_argument(
"--limit",
type=int,
default=None,
help="Stop after scraping this many detail pages (useful for testing)",
)
parser.add_argument(
"--force",
action="store_true",
help="Re-scrape plans that already have a saved detail file",
)
args = parser.parse_args()
SOURCE_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
DETAIL_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
session = _build_session()
rate = RateLimiter(args.delay)
# ------------------------------------------------------------------
# Step 1: fetch index and write index.jsonl
# ------------------------------------------------------------------
records = fetch_index(session)
scraped_at = datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
index_path = SOURCE_DIR / "index.jsonl"
with index_path.open("w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
for rec in records:
# We want to output full 'title' to index.jsonl if possible,
# but since we only have truncated title right now, we'll write that as 'title'
out_rec = {k: v for k, v in rec.items() if k != "title_truncated"}
out_rec["title"] = rec["title_truncated"]
f.write(json.dumps({**out_rec, "scraped_at": scraped_at}) + "\n")
log.info("Wrote %d index records to %s", len(records), index_path)
# ------------------------------------------------------------------
# Step 2: scrape each detail page
# ------------------------------------------------------------------
if args.limit:
records = records[: args.limit]
ok = skipped = failed = 0
total = len(records)
for i, rec in enumerate(records, 1):
result = scrape_detail(session, rate, rec, force=args.force)
if result is None:
skipped += 1
continue
slug = rec["slug"]
shard = slug[0].lower() if slug else "_"
shard_dir = DETAIL_DIR / shard
shard_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
dest = shard_dir / f"{slug}.json"
try:
dest.write_text(
json.dumps(result, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False), encoding="utf-8"
)
ok += 1
log.debug("Saved %s", dest.name)
except OSError as exc:
log.warning("Could not write %s: %s", dest, exc)
failed += 1
if i % 25 == 0 or i == total:
log.info(
"Progress: %d/%d — ok=%d skipped=%d failed=%d",
i,
total,
ok,
skipped,
failed,
)
log.info("Done — ok=%d skipped=%d failed=%d", ok, skipped, failed)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()