thermograph/gen_flavor.py
Emi Griffith c3a11ee994 SEO: per-city Wikipedia blurbs + travel/compare CTA on city pages (#98)
Add unique editorial content so the programmatic pages don't read as templated:
- gen_flavor.py seeds backend/cities_flavor.json with a short descriptive blurb per
  city from Wikipedia's free REST summary API (no key), validating each match by
  comparing article coordinates to the city's lat/lon so the wrong 'Springfield'
  never attaches. Retries + modest concurrency; ~700/750 cities get a blurb, the
  rest render without one. Text is CC BY-SA, attributed with a 'via Wikipedia' link.
- City pages show the blurb under the intro and a travel callout that deep-links to
  the compare page with the city pre-loaded (/compare#loc=lat,lon) — the visitor
  just adds their own city. Month pages get the same seasonal 'visiting in {month}?'
  compare link. Both add unique per-page text and internal links.
- cities.py gains flavor(slug); tests cover the blurb + attribution + compare CTA.
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"""Offline seeder for backend/cities_flavor.json — a short descriptive blurb per
city, so the crawlable /climate pages carry unique editorial text (not just the
templated stats) and read as distinct pages. Source: Wikipedia's free REST summary
API (no key). Text is CC BY-SA; the city page attributes it with a link.
python gen_flavor.py [--limit N] [--workers 8]
Each city is matched by name (then "name, country" / "name, admin1"), and the match
is validated by comparing Wikipedia's article coordinates to the city's known
lat/lon — so we don't attach the wrong "Springfield". Re-run to refresh; existing
entries for cities no longer in cities.json are dropped.
"""
import json
import math
import os
import sys
import time
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
from urllib.parse import quote
import httpx
import cities
OUT_PATH = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "cities_flavor.json")
UA = "ThermographBot/1.0 (https://thermograph.org; climate comparison tool)"
SUMMARY = "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/"
def _km(lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2) -> float:
dlat = (lat2 - lat1) * 111.0
dlon = (lon2 - lon1) * 111.0 * math.cos(math.radians(lat1))
return math.hypot(dlat, dlon)
def _trim(text: str, maxlen: int = 300) -> str:
text = " ".join(text.split())
if len(text) <= maxlen:
return text
cut = text[:maxlen]
i = cut.rfind(". ")
return (cut[:i + 1] if i > 80 else cut.rstrip() + "")
def _summary(client: httpx.Client, title: str) -> dict | None:
# Retry through transient throttling (429/5xx/network) so a bulk run doesn't
# silently drop cities to rate limits.
url = SUMMARY + quote(title, safe="")
for attempt in range(4):
try:
r = client.get(url, timeout=20, follow_redirects=True)
if r.status_code == 200:
return r.json()
if r.status_code == 404:
return None # no such article — don't retry
# 429 / 5xx: back off and retry
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001
pass
time.sleep(0.6 * (attempt + 1))
return None
def blurb_for(client: httpx.Client, city: dict) -> dict | None:
candidates = [city["name"]]
if city.get("country"):
candidates.append(f"{city['name']}, {city['country']}")
if city.get("admin1") and city["admin1"] != city["name"]:
candidates.append(f"{city['name']}, {city['admin1']}")
for title in candidates:
d = _summary(client, title)
if not d or d.get("type") == "disambiguation" or not d.get("extract"):
continue
coords = d.get("coordinates")
if coords and _km(city["lat"], city["lon"], coords["lat"], coords["lon"]) <= 75:
url = (d.get("content_urls", {}).get("desktop", {}) or {}).get("page")
return {"extract": _trim(d["extract"]), "url": url, "title": d.get("title")}
return None
def build(limit: int | None = None, workers: int = 8) -> dict:
todo = cities.all_cities()
if limit:
todo = todo[:limit]
out: dict[str, dict] = {}
with httpx.Client(headers={"user-agent": UA}) as client:
def work(c):
b = blurb_for(client, c)
return (c["slug"], b)
with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=workers) as ex:
for i, (slug, b) in enumerate(ex.map(work, todo), 1):
if b:
out[slug] = b
if i % 100 == 0:
print(f" {i}/{len(todo)} processed, {len(out)} with blurbs")
return out
def main() -> None:
args = sys.argv[1:]
limit = int(args[args.index("--limit") + 1]) if "--limit" in args else None
workers = int(args[args.index("--workers") + 1]) if "--workers" in args else 8
flavor = build(limit=limit, workers=workers)
with open(OUT_PATH, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
json.dump(flavor, f, ensure_ascii=False, sort_keys=True, indent=0, separators=(",", ":"))
f.write("\n")
print(f"wrote {len(flavor)} blurbs -> {OUT_PATH}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()