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31 changes: 31 additions & 0 deletions ScrapeWebsite.py
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#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)