how to scrape html with python code example
Example 1: web scraping python
#pip install beautifulsoup4
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")
#python (code name).py
Example 2: python get html info
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
my_HTML = #Some HTML file (could be a website, you can use urllib for that)
soup = BeautifulSoup(my_HTML, 'html.parser')
print(soup.prettify())
Example 3: web scraping python
import scrapy
from ..items import SampletestItem #items class
class QuoteTestSpider(scrapy.Spider):
name = 'quote_test'
start_urls = ['https://quotes.toscrape.com/']
def parse(self, response):
items = SampletestItem() #items class
quotes = response.css("div.quote")
for quote in quotes:
items['title'] = quote.css("span.text::text").get()
items['author'] = quote.css(".author::text").get()
items['tags'] = quote.css(".tags .tag::text").getall()
yield items
next_page = response.css(".next a::attr(href)").get()
if next_page is not None:
next_url = response.urljoin(next_page)
yield scrapy.Request(next_url, callback=self.parse)