Revision as of 18:12, 19 October 2018

Previews Parsing

To take the previews order form and parse its contents into database tables

The home page is located at previewsworld.com

They now have a digital version of previews which you can view on the web site or on a mobile app. Each issue is $3.99

The Customer Order Form (COF) can be downloaded in Text or PDF format from the Archive page. The have issues as far back as Jan 2012.

I have down loaded some of the text format COFs and have them located here JAN 2009 thru APR 2013

I appears the the URL for each COF in the archive follow the format below:

where <format> is either PDF or TXT

and <MONYY> is the 3 letter month abbreviation and the 2 digit year.

Apparently, it may be posible to go back as far as JAN 2010 using this process

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 I also downloaded some of the PDF format COFs which are located here:
 [https://github.com/gskluzacek/previews/tree/master/old_code/Preview%20Parsing/previews%20parsing/pdf JAN 2009 thru DEC 2010, SEP 2011, JAN 2012 thru OCT 2012 and JAN 2013 thru APR 2013]
+I appears the the URL for each COF in the archive follow the format below:
+https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/CustomerOrderForm/<format>/<MONYY>
+where <format> is either PDF or TXT
+and <MONYY> is the 3 letter month abbreviation and the 2 digit year.
+Apparently, it may be posible to go back as far as JAN 2010 using this process
 == High Level Functions ==
 === File Loader ===
 === Parsing of Loaded Data ===