Questions tagged [beautifulsoup]
Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files.
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Web scraping spider
I'm currently working on my first web scraping project and I need to scrape a lot of websites. With my current code it takes more than a day but for my project I need to scan the same websites every 5 ...
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Simplified HTML parsing for LEGO features
The goal is to extract the the Features section from a Lego product page. In the Features section, usually there's a header (...
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URL link scraper and analyser
I recently wrote a testing tool (called plink) for retrieving all the links from a website (and then retreiving links from the linked pages, and so on).
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Code scraping oddsportal using beautifulsoup
This code scrapes the website www.oddsportal.com for betting odds and historical games.
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Python BeautifulSoup - preparing HTML rows and td tags for Pandas
I'm using BeautifulSoup to parse a bunch of combined tables' rows, row by row, column by column to prepare it for import into Pandas. I can't use to_html() because ...
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Selenium/Beautifulsoup web scrape of Grainger
This is my first time writing a web scrape using Selenium and Beautifulsoup. The website I'm scraping is https://www.grainger.com/ and I have it pulling a specific set of SKUs stored in an Excel file. ...
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Web scraper for data sources from Statistics Canada
I've written a parser to scrape data from Canadian Statistics Bureau.
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scraping pollution data tables from government website
i made this python program to scrape and save the daily maximum pollution values in mexico city, the data will be used in machine learning but i wonder what could be improved:
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Monitoring webpages to be notified
I have been writing a monitoring script where I check for whenever there is changes on a webpage. When a change has happend I want to be notified by printing out that there is a difference.
I have ...
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Get the 64 most popular items from a list of tree species using webscraping
I made this python program to find the 64 most common elements of a list stored in a text file. Since this works using binomial names of trees I decided to use the number of mentions in PubMed Central ...
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Compare between two dictionaries
Hello beautiful people!
I have currently worked on a small script that I would of course continue to work with whenever I get a good feedback from the best code reviewer in here <3 - I have worked ...
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Iterate tables from table id from href links until no table with specific table id is found
I am doing web scraping to the next web page (which is my root URL to start scraping tables): https://www.iso.org/standards-catalogue/browse-by-ics.html
What I am trying to achieve is to parse the ...
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Crawler/scraper for soccer match results
I wrote this code some time ago as part of the web-scraping learning. Every now and then I find mistakes in it, as well as I have doubts. Feedback please, is this code compliant with the common best ...
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Design Pattern: Builder - BeautifulSoup directory navigation and scraping
I wrote a class on top of BeautifulSoup using the builder design pattern that allows for the navigation of the necp data directory.
There are a couple navigation ...
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Iterating over tables with nested <th> tags with BS4
The following code iterates over a table with nested th headings.
The decision has been made to just go with the main heading and ignore sub-headings, but nested ...
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Web scraping articles using asyncio
I use asyncio to speed up web scraping. I collect only title, author, tags, datetime, total comments from list view from specific website. Also, i collect these from all pages.
I would like to improve ...
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Web scraping playlist from website and writing to CSV
I have very recently learned some Python and found out about web scraping.
This is my first bash at writing some code to get a playlist from a site I had previously been copying and pasting. I would ...
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Scraping a dynamic website with Scrapy (or Requests) and Selenium
I am trying to use Scrapy for one of the sites I've scraped before using Selenium over here.
Because the search field for this site is dynamically generated and requires the user to hover the cursor ...
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Python script to scrape google maps without API
I wrote a python script to scrape google maps for my app. I really want my code to be readable and have tried to follow PEP-8 wherever I could, so I have come to you all for guidance.
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Scraping odds portal with beautiful soup
This code scrapes www.oddsportal.com for all the URLs provided in the code and appends it to a dataframe.
I am not very well versed with iterative logic hence I am finding it difficult to improvise on ...
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Refactor Web Scraper
I wrote a simple Zoopla real estate scraper for just practicing what I learned so far in Python, Requests, BeautifulSoup and overall web scraping fundamentals. By looking at my code I feel like there ...
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Content aggregator using bs4 and requests
Standard code review, tell me what's good, what's bad, and how to improve. Critical suggestions welcomed. This is a content aggregator using bs4 and requests. I did not use any tutorials or help.
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Scrape and parse dictionary website and get meaning of each word in a text file
In this program, I have done automation using Selenium, to find english meaning of each sanskrit word from a dictionary website.
The function eng_meaning accepts ...
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Scraping webpage elements using Python
I have been trying to improve my knowledge with Python and I think the code is pretty forward. However I do dislike abit the coding style I have done where I use too much try except in a content there ...
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Beautifulsoup scrape posts that has the word python in it with no python tag
This is my first time web scraping, and here is the code I whipped up:
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Scraper for basketball rosters
I am very new to Python and I am trying to learn through personnal projects and today I needed to collect a lot of baksetball player names and decided this was a good time to learn and practice.
The ...
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Python Web-Scraping with BeautifulSoup
I'm relatively new to python and for an assignment I had to write a program that fetches a webpage with BeautifulSoup, extract all Paragraphs from it, and extract all words ending with "ing",...
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MultiLingual Online Translator
So i made a program, which allows you to translate from one language to another using the command prompt.
I would like advice about the design, optimizations, and the tips and tricks to avoid ...
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Class or not in Page Scraper (Python BeautifulSoup)
I am trying to figure out whether the below is better than just having a raw script or just a script with functions.
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FanFiction Downloader in Python, with GUI
I recently have been ̶w̶a̶s̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ spending my time on making a web scraper specifically designed for FanFictions from fanfiction.net (Okay, I'll admit, I like reading them in my spare time that I ...
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Scrape every Java themed codingbat problem set and your personal solutions
I made the switch from JavaScript to Python lately. This is my first Python project and my first web-scraper. Do I have good practices? And could this be optimized?
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Unofficial API for 1001tracklists.com
I wanted to build a scaping-API for the website 1001tracklists.com by writing classes for Tracklist and Track objects and some helpful functions:
Here's the full code (GitHub):
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Better way to extract html table to dictionary using beautifulsoup in python
I am scraping HTML pages. Part of the page has a table which has acts and sections of those acts mentioned in table format. For some other project I need to convert them to Dictionary. The key values ...
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Python Web scraping
I am 12 days old into Python and web scraping and managed to write my first ever automation script. Please review my code and point out blunders If any.
What do I want to achieve?
I want to scrape ...
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First Python Web Scraping Project with BeautifulSoup
This is my first Web Scraping project in which I am retrieving the current stock information from here. This program works as expected, but I would certainly think someone with more experience with ...
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Webscraping code to import logs from a website which is about to die
We all know that the famous twitch log site OverRustleLogs is getting shut down. So I decided to do some web scraping to download my favourite streamer's logs using BeautifulSoup. How can make this ...
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A Text-Based Browser using Requests, Beautiful Soup, Sys, OS, and colorama
I have worked on this for quite a long while, and this is my 3rd attempt after completely demolishing 3 other 200 liners, and i really need ideas on how to make my code add more functionality or ...
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OOP Web-scraper w/ Python and BeautifulSoup
This is my first major web scraping program in python. My code works nonetheless, I'm just not sure if it's the best OOP design. My code is below:
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Dynamic web scraper in Python
The other week I faced the struggle of scraping dynamically generated content. So I used the selenium library with combination of requests & bs4, the thing is I am unsure of the quality of the ...
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Scraping the Bundesliga table and saving it to CSV
Wrote my first mini-script to get data from the german football league table and save the data to a csv file. Do you like the approach or could I be more efficient? Thanks in advance!
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Scraping Data From Multiple URLs into Single Dataframe
I have a Class that:
goes to a url
grabs a link from that page, and a date (filing_date)
navigates to the link, and
writes the table from that page to a ...
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Reach certain Wiki page through random links
I just read about Wiki game on Wikipedia and wanted to implement it as a fun project for myself using python.
Task:To reach Mathematics Wikipedia page using wikipedia hyperlinks randomly.
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Wordcloud from all answers of a user here on CR
Since I haven't really used Python's new async features yet, I took some older code of mine, which took all of my answers here on Code Review and generated a word cloud from them, and updated it to ...
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Trouble returning web scraping output as python dictionary [closed]
So I am attempting to scrape a website of its staff roster (https://www.milb.com/greenville/ballpark/frontoffice) and I want the end product to be a dictionary in the format of {staff: position}. I am ...
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bs4 HTML cleaner function with repetitive nested if clauses,
[I made a little web-scraper that downloads the source html files as well. Now for the sake of saving storage space i wrote a small function to delete quite a bit of stuff in the html file (specific ...
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Scraping next page using BeautifulSoup
I have created a script for article scraping - it finds title, subtitle, href-link, and the time of publication. Once retrieved, information is converted to a pandas dataframe, and the link for the ...
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CeWL written in Python
This is my implementation of CeWL, a ruby application that returns a list of words which can be used for password crackers.
My main concern is performance, as it takes a couple seconds to run. I ...
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XML parser + bs4 combo
I just wrote a short function to parse SO jobs XML feed and return dicts containing information about each job entry.
Now, each job entry page is visited to grab info not present in the xml feed (...
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