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Scrape GoodReads Quotes
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| #!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
| import json | |
| import requests | |
| from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
| quotes = [] | |
| for i in range(1, 101): | |
| url = f'https://www.goodreads.com/quotes?page={i}' | |
| headers = { | |
| 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36' | |
| } | |
| response = requests.get(url, headers=headers) | |
| soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser') | |
| target_class = 'quoteText' | |
| divs = soup.find_all('div', class_=target_class) | |
| for div in divs: | |
| parts = div.get_text(strip=True).split("ΓÇò") | |
| if len(parts) < 2: | |
| continue | |
| quote = parts[0].strip().replace("ΓÇ£", '').replace("ΓÇ¥", '') | |
| author_title = parts[1].split(",", 1) | |
| if len(author_title) < 2: | |
| author = parts[1].strip() | |
| title = '' | |
| else: | |
| author = author_title[0].strip() | |
| title = author_title[1].strip() | |
| quote_map = { | |
| "quote": quote, | |
| "author": author, | |
| "title": title | |
| } | |
| quotes.append(quote_map) | |
| json_string = json.dumps(quotes, indent=4) | |
| print(json_string) |
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