I played around with the search options a bit to fine tune the results, finally deciding to limit them to ‘news’ articles with more than 1000 words. So I had to reverse engineer the advanced search page to work out the various query options, and then build a screen scraper to harvest the results. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately there’s no API for the newspapers project (or Trove in general), though apparently it’s in the works. What I had in mind was being able to give a sense of context to any historical event by calling up the headlines for that particular time. One resource that I was keen on including was the fantastic Australian Newspapers project at the National Library of Australia. I’ve been doing a fair bit of coding in recent weeks and I thought I’d better write a few details down before I forget about them.Īs previously noted, I’ve been gathering together various historical data sets for a project at the National Museum of Australia.
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