To access the first, second, or N-th child div element in BeautifulSoup, use the .contents or .find_all() methods on a parent div element. The .contents method returns a list of children, including tags and strings, while .find_all() returns a list of matching tags only. Simply select the desired index to obtain the child div element … Read more
💬 Problem Statement: How to generate HTML documents in Python? One of the advantages of opting for Python as your programming language is that it is one of the most versatile languages, as it emphasizes code readability with extensive use of white space. It supports a large collection of libraries that serves various purposes, which … Read more
Project Motivation My wife and I are pretty discerning about which movies we allow our two daughters (ages 4 and 5) to watch. Recently, we were in conversation with their teachers at school about assembling a good list of age-appropriate movies. To simplify the process, I decided to build a database of movie ratings that … Read more
Have you ever found yourself deep in the internet rabbit hole, searching for an answer to a question that just won’t quit? It can be frustrating to sift through all the online information and still come up empty-handed. But what if there was a way to get accurate and reliable answers in a snap? Enter … Read more
Problem Formulation and Solution Overview In this article, you’ll learn how to download an image from the web in Python. To make it more fun, we have the following running scenario: Sven, a Journalist from Greeland, is writing about Glacier Calving. His editor would like photos of iceberg collapses in the area accompanying his article. … Read more
Project Description I wanted to gift myself a new mobile phone for all the hard work I have done so far. 😉 So, I checked Amazon and decided to buy Samsung Galaxy S22 5G. However, the price displayed was beyond my budget and I was eager to wait for the price to drop below a … Read more
A few days ago, a coding friend asked me: “What is the best Google search library for Python?” Well, to be honest, I had no clue, so I did my investigation and did some quick testing. And I thought that it might be useful to share it with some Pythonistas newbies out of there. So … Read more
Keeping Up With Market Changes By Using Google Trends API In this fast-moving world, people’s needs are constantly changing. To know about shifting behaviors, you can use Google Trends. This free tool provides data through search requests across Google Search, YouTube, Shopping, and Images. By entering a keyword or a topic, you can explore what … Read more
Scrapy is an excellent tool for extracting data from static and dynamic websites. In this article, we are going to discuss the solution to the following problems: Extract all details of Offices from the website https:/directory.ntschools.net/#/offices Instead of using a whole scrapy framework, use a typical Python script for extracting the data. For each office, … Read more
In this article, you will learn how to send a POST request using the urllib library in Python. Once you have gone through the procedure to send POST requests via urllib, we will also have a look at how to send POST requests using the requests library which is used to handle GET and POST … Read more
You can check programmatically in Python whether a certain ENS ‘.eth‘ domain name is available by using the urlopen() function from urllib.request module to access the URL ‘https://etherscan.io/enslookup-search?search=example.eth’, replacing the URL suffix ‘example.eth’ with your desired domain. In the following example code snippet, I show how you could check a list of names, one domain … Read more
This article indicates a way to scrape imdb.com/chart/top/, a website that contains 250 numbers of top-rated Movies. This article is solely for educational purposes. 👉 Recommended Tutorial: Web Scraping – Is It Legal? The tool used to extract data from a website is Scrapy, and the software system is UNIX operating system. Virtual Environment Set … Read more