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+# WIP thingy that downloads official patch notes, starting from 24/12/2025 going one week back at a time
+# WIP because patch notes don't always come out on thursdays, which this script just assumes
+# the "idea" is to download a ton of patch notes and get the corresponding recent news articles from the wiki
+# and train or fine tune some kind of model to do patch notes better
+
+from datetime import date, timedelta
+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+d = date(2025, 12, 24)
+URL = "https://azurlane.yo-star.com/news/"
+
+search = None
+
+while True:
+    print(search)
+    if d == search:
+        search = d - timedelta(days=7)
+        d -= timedelta(days=14)
+        continue
+    date = f"{d.year}/{d.month}/{d.day}"
+    print(URL + date)
+
+    response = requests.get(URL + date)
+    bs = BeautifulSoup(response.text, features="html.parser")
+    if "Oops!" in bs.text:
+        if search == None:
+            search = d
+        d += timedelta(days=1)
+        continue
+    wp = bs.find(id="main")
+    text = wp.get_text(separator="\n").splitlines()
+    while text[0] != "List of New Contents":
+        text.pop(0)
+    while text[-1] != "Friendly Reminders":
+        text.pop()
+    text.pop()
+    
+    with open(f"{d.year}-{d.month}-{d.day}.txt", "w", encoding="utf8") as f:
+        f.write("\n".join(text))
+
+    d -= timedelta(days=7)