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script to get my the topics that I answer the most on Quora
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import time | |
from selenium import webdriver | |
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys | |
def get_topics(user): | |
url = "http://www.quora.com/" + user + "/topics" | |
browser = webdriver.Chrome() | |
browser.get(url) | |
time.sleep(2) | |
bod = browser.find_element_by_tag_name("body") | |
get_topics('Juan-Gallardo') | |
no_of_pagedowns = 40 | |
while no_of_pagedowns: | |
bod.send_keys(Keys.PAGE_DOWN) | |
time.sleep(0.3) | |
no_of_pagedowns-=1 | |
topics = [t.text.encode('ascii', 'replace') for t in browser.find_elements_by_class_name("name_text")] | |
counts = [c.text.encode('ascii', 'replace').split(' ')[0] for c in browser.find_elements_by_class_name("name_meta")] | |
li = [[topics[i], int(counts[i])] for i in xrange(len(topics)) if counts[i] != ''] | |
browser.quit() | |
return li |
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