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Scraping Codeforces Problems
By TheeLooser, history, 3 years ago, In English

Is there a way to scrape problem statements automatically?

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3 years ago, # |
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Using codeforces API — checkout the Problem section.

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    3 years ago, # ^ |
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    Unfortunately, the Problem object does not come with the statement text.

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      I am not sure what you are trying to achieve but previously I was working on a similar kind of problem I used beautifulsoup from python to read HTML and parse the content. you can do a similar for your purpose.

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        3 years ago, # ^ |
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        I tried using soup but it doesn't work anymore. I think Codeforces upgraded their systems (currently uses some sort of script to get statements on demand? I know very little about this stuff). In fact, previously you could just use wget to just download a problem page, like https://codeforces.net/problemset/problem/1673/F, to get the raw HTML. This doesn't work anymore. In case I might be missing something trivial, could you please try using soup again – I mean, right now? I think when you did your parsing, a simple wget command would've worked.

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      3 years ago, # ^ |
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      Download page using the problem id?

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So, a friend of mine looked into it and found out that wget/curl https://codeforces.net/contest/contestId/problems still works, while the problem with wget/curl https://codeforces.net/problemset/problem/contestId/index is that it just gives the preload HTML. So, scraping contest psets instead of individual problems is an alternative. Thanks for your comments.

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    2 years ago, # ^ |
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    Unfortunately, it seems like this no longer work anymore :/ Did you manage to find any other alternative?

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