📅 2023-12-28 — Session: Enhanced Error Handling and Markdown Automation
🕒 16:50–18:10
🏷️ Labels: Python, API, Markdown, Automation, Web Scraping
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to improve error handling in API calls for legislative document processing and automate the creation of a consolidated Markdown document.
Key Activities
- Error Handling: Addressed a ‘502 Bad Gateway’ error in OpenAI API calls by implementing a robust Python loop that ensures continued processing despite temporary file issues.
- API Response Management: Improved the handling of API responses by resetting the
api_responsesvariable at the start of each loop iteration to prevent accumulation in Markdown files. - Markdown Automation: Developed a Python script to consolidate multiple Markdown files into a single document, ensuring proper order and separation.
- Web Scraping Enhancements: Utilized BeautifulSoup to extract titles and subtitles from HTML, focusing on
<h3>tags and Roman numerals. - Legal Document Integration: Proposed methods to integrate section headers into legal documents without disrupting logical order.
Achievements
- Successfully implemented error handling for API calls.
- Automated the consolidation of Markdown documents.
- Enhanced web scraping techniques for extracting structured data.
Pending Tasks
- Further testing of the Markdown consolidation script in diverse scenarios.
- Optimization of the web scraping functions for different HTML structures.