Authors on Freep Article

author.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import print_function
import re
import requests

# lets download the article web page
r = requests.get('http://www.freep.com/story/life/advice/2015/05/04/mother-law-meant-selfish/26706999/')
print("Grabbing data from {}".format(r.url))
r.raise_for_status()

amy_pattern = re.compile('amy dickinson', re.IGNORECASE)
carolyn_pattern = re.compile('carolyn hax', re.IGNORECASE)

amys = amy_pattern.findall(r.text)
carolyns = carolyn_pattern.findall(r.text)

# number of times the author was found in the text of the web page
print("Amy Dickinson: {}".format(len(amys)))
print("Carolyn Hax: {}".format(len(carolyns)))

Results:

Amy Dickinson: 0
Carolyn Hax: 14