Short version of the situation is that I have an old site I frequent for user written stories. The site is ancient (think early 2000’s), and has terrible tools for sorting and searching the stories. Half of the time, stories disappear from author profiles. Thousands of stories and you can only sort by top, new, and 30-day top.
I’m in the process of programming a scraper tool so I can archive the stories and give myself a library to better find forgotten stories on the site. I’ll be storing tags, dates, authors, etc, as well as the full body of the text.
Concerning the data, there are a few thousand stories- ascii only, and various data points for each story with the body of many stores reaching several pages long.
Currently, I’m using Python to compile the data and would like to know what storage solution is ideal for my situation. I have a little familiarity with SQL, json, and yaml, but not enough to know what might be best. I am also open to any other solutions that work well with Python.
A few keywords in there I’ll have to look up, but I get the majority of it.
Yeah, I’m not too sure yet how complex the tags will be in the end. They are basically genres at the start, but I may make them more complex as I go.
After reading some of the other comments, I doubt I’ll use yaml as the main storage method. I do like the idea of using yaml for the scraper output though. Would give me a nice way to organize the data elements for each story in a way that can be easily read when needed.