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+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+import urllib2, sys, re
+from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
+import indicoio
+indicoio.config.api_key = '1b3a2e80bc0395cfe488c1bdceea85d9'
+import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+
+
+
+
+class MLStripper(HTMLParser):
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.reset()
+        self.fed = []
+    def handle_data(self, d):
+        self.fed.append(d)
+    def get_data(self):
+        return ''.join(self.fed)
+
+
+def wiki_summary(title):   
+    """
+    takes a string of a book title and returns a wikipedia summary of that book
+    title: a string that is a book title
+    returns: a wikipedia summary of that book in string form
+
+    """
+    special_case = ['_For_', '_The_', '_A_', '_In_','_Of_','_On_','_From_','_Is_', "'S", "Novel","_To_"]  
+    special_case_replace = ['_for_', '_the_', '_a_', '_in_','_of_','_on_','_from_','_is_',"'s", "novel","_to_"]                                                                            
+    title = title.replace(" ", "_")
+    title = title.strip(" ").title()
+    title_extra = "_(novel)"
+  
+    site = "http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/" + title
+  
+ 
+    for i in range (0, len(special_case)):
+        if str(special_case[i]) in site:
+            site = site.replace(str(special_case[i]),str(special_case_replace[i])) 
+    
+    hdr = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}
+    req = urllib2.Request(site,headers=hdr)
+    page = urllib2.urlopen(req)
+
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(page, 'html.parser')
+
+    if soup.find(id="Plot") == None and soup.find(id="Plot_summary") == None \
+    and soup.find(id="Synopsis") == None and soup.find(id="Summary") == None:
+        site = "http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/" + title + title_extra
+        hdr = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}
+        req = urllib2.Request(site,headers=hdr)
+        page = urllib2.urlopen(req)
+        soup = BeautifulSoup(page, 'html.parser')
+  
+    
+    plot_location_1 = str(soup.find(id="Plot"))
+    plot_location_2 = str(soup.find(id="Plot_summary"))
+    plot_location_3 = str(soup.find(id="Synopsis"))
+    plot_location_4 = str(soup.find(id="Summary"))
+
+
+    body = str(soup.body)
+    if plot_location_1 in body:
+    	index = body.index(plot_location_1)
+    elif plot_location_2 in body:
+    	index = body.index(plot_location_2)
+    elif plot_location_3 in body:
+    	index = body.index(plot_location_3)
+    elif plot_location_4 in body:
+    	index = body.index(plot_location_4)
+    else:
+    	return ""
+
+
+    plot_loc = body[index:]
+    index_para_start = plot_loc.index("<p>")
+    index_para_end = plot_loc.index("<h2>")
+
+    unstripped = str(plot_loc[index_para_start:index_para_end])
+
+    stripped = stripHTMLTags(unstripped)
+    strippedd = stripBrackets(stripped)
+    return stripCaptions(strippedd)
+
+def stripHTMLTags(html):
+    """ removes html syntax from text
+        html: a string with html syntax in it
+        returns: a string stripped of html syntax
+
+    """ 
+
+    html = re.sub(r'<{1}br{1}>', '\n', html)
+    s = MLStripper()
+    s.feed(html)
+    text = s.get_data()
+    if "External links" in text:
+        text, sep, tail = text.partition('External links')
+    if "External Links" in text:
+        text, sep, tail = text.partition('External Links')
+    text = text = text.replace("See also","\n\n See Also - \n")
+    text = text.replace("*","- ")
+    text = text.replace(".", ". ")
+    text = text.replace("  "," ")
+    text = text.replace("""   /
+        / """, "")
+    return text
+
+def stripBrackets(text):
+    """ removes brackets with a number between 1 and 100 between them from text
+        text: a string to modify
+        returns: the input string without brackets
+    """
+    for i in range(100):
+        text = text.replace("[" + str(i) + "]","")
+    return text
+
+def stripCaptions(text):
+    """ removes paragraphs in a string shorter than 40 characters
+        text: a string in paragraph form
+        returns: a string stripped of paragraphs shorter than 40 characters
+    """
+    paragraphs = text.split("\n")
+    new_paragraphs = []
+
+    for paragraph in paragraphs:
+        if len(paragraph) > 40:
+            new_paragraphs.append(paragraph)
+    return '\n\n'.join(new_paragraphs)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sentiment = []
+    books = ['The Man with the Golden Arm', 'From here to eternity', 'invisible man',\
+     'the adventures of augie march', \
+    'The Moviegoer','The Centaur',
+    'Herzog',
+    'The Fixer',
+    'them',
+    'Augustus_(Williams_novel)',
+    'The World According to Garp',
+    'White Noise',
+    'Middle Passage',
+    'The Shipping News',
+    'A Frolic of His Own',
+    'Cold Mountain',
+    'The Corrections',
+    'Three Junes',
+    'Europe Central',
+    'Tree of Smoke',
+    'Let the Great World Spin',
+    'The Round House',
+    'The Good Lord Bird',]
+
+
+    for i in books:
+       
+        summary = (wiki_summary(i))
+        sentiment.append((indicoio.sentiment(str(summary))))
+
+    axes = plt.gca()
+    plt.title('Sentiment of National Book Award Winners (Fiction)')
+    plt.ylabel('Sentiment')
+    plt.xlabel('Books (in Chronological Order)')
+    axes.set_xlim([0,22])
+    axes.set_ylim([0,1]) 
+    plt.plot(sentiment)
+    plt.show()
+    #print summary
+    #print(indicoio.sentiment(str(summary)))
+
+
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