Obtaining Full Titles

Sadly, there is no API to get a definitive list of SEP entries with their URLs and full titles, so I had to screenscrape all 1170 of them, using the SEP’s table of contents as an index, then using the archival/citation page of each entry to glean the full titles, since it is much smaller to transfer and parse than any given entry. Now I have a DB table with titles like “18th Century British Aesthetics” rather than “British, in the 18th century.” Also, each entry now has a unique ID that I can use in future tables to allow for faster calculations, rather than matching on the entry title.

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