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Scrape the highest rated MP3 from Forvo.com for a given word
#!/bin/bash
# Forvo scraper
language=${FORVO_LANG:-fr}
BASEURL="http://forvo.com/search/"
AUDIOURL="http://audio.forvo.com/mp3/"
word=$1
if [[ -z $word ]]; then
echo "usage: "
echo "FORVO_LANG=languagecode ./forvo_scraper.sh myword"
echo "for example: "
echo "FORVO_LANG=fr ./forvo_scraper.sh chien"
echo "will save a single file named 'chien.mp3' in the current folder"
exit
fi
url="${BASEURL}${word}/${language}"
playurl="${BASEURL}${word}/#${language}"
file="$(wget -qO- "${url}" | grep 'onclick="Play(' | head -1 | sed "s/^.*Play(.*,'\([^']*\)','.*$/\1/g" | base64 -d)"
wget -qO"${word}.mp3" "${AUDIOURL}${file}"
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jiru commented Jul 28, 2016

Thanks! I updated your script to make it work again.

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