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webscraper.py
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#!/usr/bin/env python
import requests
import urllib.request
import time
import datetime
import bs4
import json
url1 = "https://politico.com"
politicoRes = requests.get(url1)
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(politicoRes.text, "html.parser")
links = {}
links['politico'] = []
# should be looking for tag section with class media-item
for ana in soup.findAll('section', class_ = 'media-item'):
if(len(links['politico']) < 20):
print("\n\n\n")
#ana['href']
#print(ana['href'])
title_ = ana.findAll(class_ = 'headline')
title = None
url = None
for title in title_:
if title:
title = title.find('a')
if title:
url = title["href"]
title = title.text.strip(" \n")
break
print(f"title: {title}")
print(f"url: {url}")
#print(ana.find("p", class_ = "dek"))
authors_ = ana.find("p", class_ = "authors")
authors = []
if authors_:
authors_ = authors_.findAll(class_ = "vcard")
for author in authors_:
authors.append(author.text.strip(" \n"))
authors = ", ".join(authors)
print(f"authors: {authors}")
ana.find('a')['href']
image = ana.find("img")
if image:
image = image['src']
print(f"image: {image}")
description = ana.find(class_ = "dek") or ana.find(class_ = "tease")
if description:
description = description.text
print(f"decription: {description}")
if not "http" in url:
continue
resolvedArticle = requests.get(url)
articleSoup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(resolvedArticle.text, "html.parser")
time = articleSoup.find('time')
if time:
time = time['datetime']
print(f"time: {time}")
if not authors:
authors = []
authors_ = articleSoup.findAll(class_ = "vcard")
for author in authors_:
authors.append(author.text.strip(" \n"))
authors = ", ".join(authors)
print(f"authors: {authors}")
if not image:
image = articleSoup.find("img")
if image:
image = image['src']
print(f"image: {image}")
if not description:
description = articleSoup.find(class_ = "dek")
if description:
description = description.text
print(f"decription: {description}")
links['politico'].append({
# an img inside a picture tag. The picture tag also has other resolutions.
'image': image,
'link': url,
# politico uses a time tag to represent dates. We should put the date of the article here.
'date': time,
# if we want to, we could put the author here, Its an a tag with rel attribute of author inside a span inside a p with class authors.
'user': authors,
# the a tags are wrapped in an h1 with class headline
'head': title,
# the description is wrapped in a p with class dek
'body': description
})
#time.sleep(0.01)
#else:
#print("skipping...")
print("finished")
with open('data.json', 'w') as outfile:
json.dump(links, outfile)