diff --git a/ScrapeWebsite.py b/ScrapeWebsite.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3475c73 --- /dev/null +++ b/ScrapeWebsite.py @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +#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)