how to scrape python code from a page code example
Example 1: web scraping python
import os
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = "https://www.google.com/"
reponse = requests.get(url)
if reponse.ok:
soup = BeautifulSoup(reponse.text, "lxml")
title = str(soup.find("title"))
title = title.replace("<title>", "")
title = title.replace("</title>", "")
print("The title is : " + str(title))
os.system("pause")
Example 2: web scraper python
def get_hits_on_name(name):
"""
Accepts a `name` of a mathematician and returns the number
of hits that mathematician's Wikipedia page received in the
last 60 days, as an `int`
"""
url_root = 'URL_REMOVED_SEE_NOTICE_AT_START_OF_ARTICLE'
response = simple_get(url_root.format(name))
if response is not None:
html = BeautifulSoup(response, 'html.parser')
hit_link = [a for a in html.select('a')
if a['href'].find('latest-60') > -1]
if len(hit_link) > 0:
link_text = hit_link[0].text.replace(',', '')
try:
return int(link_text)
except:
log_error("couldn't parse {} as an `int`".format(link_text))
log_error('No pageviews found for {}'.format(name))
return None