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A gist to gather the whole merchant of venice explanation from 'SparkNotes' named website.
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| import requests | |
| import BeautifulSoup | |
| def main(): | |
| print "Hey! Let's start Doing things" | |
| done=False; i = 0 ; acc = "<html><body>" | |
| while (i<=50): | |
| i = i + 2 | |
| print "Getting {0}".format(i) | |
| r = requests.get( | |
| 'http://nfs.sparknotes.com/merchant/page_{0}.html'.format(i) | |
| ) | |
| if r.status_code == 200: | |
| print "Got it! Parsing it now." | |
| soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(r.content) | |
| if soup.find(id='noFear-comparison') == None: | |
| break | |
| else: | |
| acc += '<hr/>' + str(soup.find(id='noFear-comparison')) | |
| else: | |
| print "Ooops, looks like something went wrong!\n Exiting!" | |
| file1 = open('merchant.html','w') | |
| print "Writing to file now!" | |
| file1.write(acc+'</body></html>') | |
| print "Done!" | |
| if __name__ == '__main__': | |
| main() |
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