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price = page_content.find(id='listings_prices')
# check if the element with such id exists or not
if price is None:
    # NOTIFY! LOG IT, COUNT IT
else:
    # do something

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# library to generate user agent
from user_agent import generate_user_agent
# generate a user agent
headers = {'User-Agent': generate_user_agent(device_type="desktop", os=('mac', 'linux'))}
#headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.63 Safari/537.36'}
page_response = requests.get(page_link, timeout=5, headers=headers)

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# timeout is set to 5 secodns
page_response = requests.get(page_link, timeout=5, headers=headers)

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import numpy as np
import multiprocessing as multi

def chunks(n, page_list):
    """Splits the list into n chunks"""
    return np.array_split(page_list,n)
 
cpus = multi.cpu_count()
workers = []
page_list = ['www.website.com/page1.html', 'www.website.com/page2.html'

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try:
    page_response = requests.get(page_link, timeout=5)
    if page_response.status_code == 200:
        # extract
    else:
        print(page_response.status_code)
        # notify, try again
except requests.Timeout as e:
    print("It is time to timeout")
    print(str(e))

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from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
page_link ='https://www.website_to_crawl.com'
# fetch the content from url
page_response = requests.get(page_link, timeout=5)
# parse html
page_content = BeautifulSoup(page_response.content, "html.parser")

# extract all html elements where price is stored
prices = page_content.find_all(class_='main_price')

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proxies = {'http' : 'http://10.10.0.0:0000',  
          'https': 'http://120.10.0.0:0000'}
page_response = requests.get(page_link, proxies=proxies, timeout=5)