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Python script to extract a price from a product web page
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| from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
| from urllib2 import Request, urlopen | |
| import decimal | |
| def findPrice(url, selector): | |
| userAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2490.86 Safari/537.36" | |
| req = Request(url, None, {'User-Agent': userAgent}) | |
| html = urlopen(req).read() | |
| soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "lxml") | |
| return decimal.Decimal(soup.select(selector)[0].contents[0].strip().strip("$")) | |
| print findPrice("https://cdn.rawgit.com/brianpursley/661071c026b9bf130971/raw/94a914d15e977150b531c5c44cbee1545f9e70f0/example-scrape-target.html", "#priceRow > div:nth-of-type(2)") | |
| # Below is an example of how you could potentially use this to extract a price from an Amazon product web page | |
| # print findPrice("http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-3rd-Thomas-Cormen/dp/0262033844", "#newOfferAccordionRow .header-price") |
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How to run this example:
1. Install dependencies
2. Get the script from the gist
3. Run the script