scrape site iwth bs4 code example

Example 1: 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'

Example 2: BeautifulSoup - scraping list from html

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# Simple HTML
SIMPLE_HTML = '''<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<h1>This is a title</h1>
<p class="subtitle">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p>
<p>Here's another p without a class</p>
<ul>
    <li>Sarah</li>
    <li>Mary</li>
    <li>Charlotte</li>
    <li>Carl</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>'''

simple_soup = BeautifulSoup(SIMPLE_HTML, 'html.parser')      # use html.parser in order to understand the simple HTML

# Find list from html
def find_list():
    list_items = simple_soup.find_all('li')
    my_list = [e.string for e in list_items]  # convert list_items to string
    print(my_list)
    
find_list()

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