using scraping on files 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: web scraper python
def get_names():
"""
Downloads the page where the list of mathematicians is found
and returns a list of strings, one per mathematician
"""
url = 'http://www.fabpedigree.com/james/mathmen.htm'
response = simple_get(url)
if response is not None:
html = BeautifulSoup(response, 'html.parser')
names = set()
for li in html.select('li'):
for name in li.text.split('\n'):
if len(name) > 0:
names.add(name.strip())
return list(names)
# Raise an exception if we failed to get any data from the url
raise Exception('Error retrieving contents at {}'.format(url))