Web Scraping using Python Scrapy_BS4 - using BeautifulSoup and Python

Use BeautifulSoup and Python to scrap a website

Lib:

• urllib
• Parsing HTML Data

Web scraping script

from urllib.request import urlopen as uReq
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup

quotes_page = "https://bluelimelearning.github.io/my-fav-quotes/"
uClient = uReq(quotes_page)
page_html = uClient.read()
uClient.close()
page_soup = soup(page_html, "html.parser")
quotes = page_soup.findAll("div", {"class":"quotes"})

for quote in quotes:
    fav_quote = quote.findAll("p", {"class":"aquote"})
    aquote = fav_quote[0].text.strip()

    fav_authors = quote.findAll("p",{"class":"author"})
    author = fav_authors[0].text.strip()

    print(aquote)
    print(author)

Run this script successfully

Following is the whole result of this scraping.

I hear and i forget. I see and i remember. I do and i understand.
Confucious
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
William Arthur Ward
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucious
The secret of getting aheadis getting started.
Mark Twain
Believe you can   and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
Resentment is like drinking Poison and  waiting for your enemies to die.
Nelson Mandela
Silence is a true friend   who never betrays.
Confucius
The best way to find yourself is to   lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King Jnr
The journey of a thousand miles  begins with one step.
Lao Tzu
It is health that is real wealth and  not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma Gandhi
Yesterday is not ours to recover  but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B Johnson
It's not what happens to you  but how you react to it that matters .
Epictetus
Beware of what you become  in pursuit of what you want.
Jim Rohn
The best revenge  is massive success.
Frank Sinatra
Do not take life too seriously You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap  but by the seeds that yiu plant.
Robert Loius Stevenson
Your attitude and not your aptitude  will determine your altitude
Zig Ziglar
Imagination is more important  than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

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