Web Scrapping

Python program to scrape website

and save quotes from website

import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import csv

URL = "http://www.values.com/inspirational-quotes" r = requests.get(URL)

soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, 'html5lib')

quotes=[] # a list to store quotes

table = soup.find('div', attrs = {'id':'all_quotes'})

for row in table.findAll('div', attrs = {'class':'col-6 col-lg-3 text-center margin-30px-bottom sm-margin-30px-top'}): quote = {} quote['theme'] = row.h5.text quote['url'] = row.a['href'] quote['img'] = row.img['src'] quote['lines'] = row.img['alt'].split(" #")[0] quote['author'] = row.img['alt'].split(" #")[1] quotes.append(quote)

filename = 'inspirational_quotes.csv' with open(filename, 'w', newline='') as f: w = csv.DictWriter(f,['theme','url','img','lines','author']) w.writeheader() for quote in quotes: w.writerow(quote)

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• python