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Social Blade scrape
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| import urllib2 | |
| import csv | |
| import re | |
| from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
| rank_page = 'https://socialblade.com/youtube/top/50/mostviewed' | |
| request = urllib2.Request(rank_page, headers={'User-Agent': 'your user-agent'}) | |
| page = urllib2.urlopen(request) | |
| soup = BeautifulSoup(page, 'html.parser') | |
| channels = soup.find('div', attrs={'style': 'float: right; width: 900px;'}).find_all('div', recursive=False)[4:] | |
| file = open('topyoutubers.csv', 'wb') | |
| writer = csv.writer(file) | |
| # write title row | |
| writer.writerow(['Username', 'Uploads', 'Views']) | |
| for channel in channels: | |
| username = channel.find('div', attrs={'style': 'float: left; width: 350px; line-height: 25px;'}).a.text.strip() | |
| uploads = channel.find('div', attrs={'style': 'float: left; width: 80px;'}).span.text.strip() | |
| views = channel.find_all('div', attrs={'style': 'float: left; width: 150px;'})[1].span.text.strip() | |
| print username + ' ' + uploads + ' ' + views | |
| writer.writerow([username.encode('utf-8'), uploads.encode('utf-8'), views.encode('utf-8')]) | |
| file.close() |
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