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Stream 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 = """ The Dormouse's story  The Dormouse's story Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and their names were Elsie, Lacie and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well. ... """ ''' # 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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# 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 = """ The Dormouse's story

The Dormouse's story

Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and their names were Elsie, Lacie and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well.

...

""" ''' # 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))

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