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evo-web-essay-scraper

Scrapes and extracts clean text from Paul Graham essays on paulgraham.com. Handles legacy table-based HTML, character encoding, and text chunking for TTS APIs.

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# evo-web-essay-scraper

Scrapes Paul Graham essays and prepares text for TTS consumption.

## Key Functions

- `scrape_pg_essay(url)` - Fetches and extracts clean text from a PG essay URL
- `clean_text(text)` - Cleans text artifacts, encoding issues, nav boilerplate
- `chunk_text(text, max_chars=4000)` - Splits text into API-safe chunks by sentence boundaries

## Essay URLs
- "Do Things that Don't Scale": `http://www.paulgraham.com/ds.html`
- "Founder Mode": `http://www.paulgraham.com/foundermode.html`