python scraping website code example

Example 1: python web scraping

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

URL = 'https://www.monster.com/jobs/search/?q=Software-Developer&where=Australia'
page = requests.get(URL)

soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, 'html.parser')

Example 2: 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)

Example 3: web scraper python

from requests import get
from requests.exceptions import RequestException
from contextlib import closing
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

Example 4: web scraper python

>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> raw_html = open('contrived.html').read()
>>> html = BeautifulSoup(raw_html, 'html.parser')
>>> for p in html.select('p'):
...     if p['id'] == 'walrus':
...         print(p.text)

'I am the walrus'