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Project: Web Scraping Quotes with BeautifulSoup

Posted on February 10, 2024February 10, 2024 By allexamprep.com No Comments on Project: Web Scraping Quotes with BeautifulSoup

Let’s create a project for creating a simple web scraper using Python and the BeautifulSoup library. In this example, we’ll scrape quotes from a website.

1. Project Setup:

  • Create a new Python project or script.
  • Install necessary libraries:
pip install beautifulsoup4 requests

2. Web Scraping:

  • Use BeautifulSoup and requests to scrape quotes from a website:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

def scrape_quotes(url):
    # Send a GET request to the website
    response = requests.get(url)

    # Check if the request was successful
    if response.status_code == 200:
        # Parse the HTML content using BeautifulSoup
        soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')

        # Extract quotes from the HTML
        quotes = []
        for quote_element in soup.find_all('span', class_='text'):
            quote = quote_element.get_text()
            quotes.append(quote)

        return quotes
    else:
        print(f"Failed to retrieve content. Status code: {response.status_code}")
        return []

# Example usage
url = 'http://quotes.toscrape.com/'
quotes = scrape_quotes(url)

print("Scraped Quotes:")
for i, quote in enumerate(quotes, start=1):
    print(f"{i}. {quote}")

3. User Interaction:

  • Allow the user to input a website URL and scrape quotes:
def scrape_and_display_quotes(user_url):
    quotes = scrape_quotes(user_url)

    if quotes:
        print("\nScraped Quotes:")
        for i, quote in enumerate(quotes, start=1):
            print(f"{i}. {quote}")

# User interaction loop
while True:
    user_url = input("\nEnter a website URL for quote scraping (or 'exit' to end):\n")
    
    # Exit the loop if the user types 'exit'
    if user_url.lower() == 'exit':
        break

    scrape_and_display_quotes(user_url)

4. Project Conclusion:

  • Summarize the project’s goals, outcomes, and potential improvements.
  • Include any insights gained from scraping quotes from websites.

This project provides a simple example of web scraping using BeautifulSoup to extract quotes from a website. You can customize the scraper for different websites, handle pagination, and extract additional information. Additionally, be sure to respect the terms of service of the website you are scraping and ensure that your web scraping activities comply with legal and ethical standards.

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