Walks Into A Bar Dataset

This dataset contains 1434 bar jokes webscraped from various sources on the internet.

The sources used are listed below.

Name	URL
grammarbook	https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/definitions/walks-into-a-bar/
thrillist	https://www.thrillist.com/culture/best-walks-into-a-bar-jokes
jokojokes	https://jokojokes.com/walks-into-a-bar-jokes.html
gamertelligence	https://www.gamertelligence.com/walks-into-a-bar-jokes/

Files

• The main dataset can be found in data/jokes.csv.
• The primary notebook used for scrapping the aforementioned websites is notebooks/walks_into_bar_scrapper.ipynb.
• notebooks/seleniumconfig.py is a helper module for obtaining a chrome WebDriver with predefined configurations.
• Note - Running the scrapper notebook requires installing all the packages in requirements.txt. Additionally, a chromedriver executable suitable for your operating system needs to be present in the root directory.

Disclaimer

Please note that the data has been webscrapped with minimal editing of the original text. Therefore some jokes might be repeated, or might be NSFW. Certain websites had user-provided jokes, which as a result might not conform to the general structure of a walks-into-a-bar joke.

Feel free to contribute to this dataset if you can come across further sources for bar jokes.

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