web scraper python
from requests import get
from requests.exceptions import RequestException
from contextlib import closing
from bs4 import BeautifulSoupweb scraper python
from requests import get
from requests.exceptions import RequestException
from contextlib import closing
from bs4 import BeautifulSoupweb scraper python
>>> raw_html = simple_get('http://www.fabpedigree.com/james/mathmen.htm')
>>> html = BeautifulSoup(raw_html, 'html.parser')
>>> for i, li in enumerate(html.select('li')):
print(i, li.text)
0 Isaac Newton
Archimedes
Carl F. Gauss
Leonhard Euler
Bernhard Riemann
1 Archimedes
Carl F. Gauss
Leonhard Euler
Bernhard Riemann
2 Carl F. Gauss
Leonhard Euler
Bernhard Riemann
3 Leonhard Euler
Bernhard Riemann
4 Bernhard Riemann
# 5 ... and many more...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))Copyright © 2021 Codeinu
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