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004 - HTML Scraping with Beautiful Soup

Stream Our Mistakes screenshotStream Our Mistakes EP 004


In this episode, Matt walks us through html/web scraping using the popular python library, Beautiful Soup.



Here's the code snippet from the session and links:

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# Created for Stream Our Mistakes 
# https://streamourmistakes.blogspot.com/

# Reference:
# https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html
# https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib.request

''' 
# local html to play with from documentation Uncomment to enable 
html_doc = """
<html><head><title>The Dormouse's story</title></head>
<body>
<p class="title"><b>The Dormouse's story</b></p>

<p class="story">Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and their names were
<a href="http://example.com/elsie" class="sister" id="link1">Elsie</a>,
<a href="http://example.com/lacie" class="sister" id="link2">Lacie</a> and
<a href="http://example.com/tillie" class="sister" id="link3">Tillie</a>;
and they lived at the bottom of a well.</p>

<p class="story">...</p>
"""
'''

# Get the html from the web.
f = urllib.request.urlopen('https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aristotle')

# Load the html into the parser.
soup = BeautifulSoup(f.read(), 'html.parser')

# Show the whole raw 
# print(soup.prettify())

# Access a single element.
# print(soup.title)

# Find all a tags in the html doc and print some information.
links = soup.find_all('a')

for link in links:
    print(link.get('href'))

print(len(links))

links:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html
https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/

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