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web scraper python

from requests import get
from requests.exceptions import RequestException
from contextlib import closing
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
Posted by: Guest on August-09-2020
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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))
Posted by: Guest on August-09-2020

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