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
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))web scraper python
def get_hits_on_name(name):
"""
Accepts a `name` of a mathematician and returns the number
of hits that mathematician's Wikipedia page received in the
last 60 days, as an `int`
"""
# url_root is a template string that is used to build a URL.
url_root = 'URL_REMOVED_SEE_NOTICE_AT_START_OF_ARTICLE'
response = simple_get(url_root.format(name))
if response is not None:
html = BeautifulSoup(response, 'html.parser')
hit_link = [a for a in html.select('a')
if a['href'].find('latest-60') > -1]
if len(hit_link) > 0:
# Strip commas
link_text = hit_link[0].text.replace(',', '')
try:
# Convert to integer
return int(link_text)
except:
log_error("couldn't parse {} as an `int`".format(link_text))
log_error('No pageviews found for {}'.format(name))
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