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Scrape the stars count of a GitHub repo (beautifulSoup)
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| from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs | |
| import requests | |
| def stars_count(url): | |
| html = requests.get(url).text | |
| soup = bs(html, 'lxml') | |
| stars_class = "social-count js-social-count" | |
| stars = soup.find('a', class_=stars_class).text.strip() | |
| return stars | |
| repo = 'https://github.com/TensorFlow/TensorFlow' | |
| print(stars_count(repo)) | |
| # out: 43,939 |
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