Web scrapping 1 - Medium

web_scrapping_quotes_1.py

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re
import os
import time

home_url = 'http://www.wiseoldsayings.com'
r = requests.get(home_url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, 'html5lib')
quote_classes = []
quote_hrefs = []
cat_list = soup.find('div', attrs = {'class':'cat_list'})
for row in cat_list.findAll('li'):
    quote_classes.append(row.text.strip())
    quote_hrefs.append(row.a['href'].strip())