Creating scrapers and using them
from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re
pages = set()
def getLinks(pageUrl):
global pages
html = urlopen("http://en.wikipedia.org"+pageUrl)
bsObj = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
for link in bsObj.findAll("a", href=re.compile("^(/wiki/)")):
if 'href' in link.attrs:
if link.attrs['href'] not in pages:
#We have encountered a new page
newPage = link.attrs['href']
print(newPage)
pages.add(newPage)
getLinks(newPage)
getLinks("")
from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import datetime
import random
import re
random.seed(datetime.datetime.now())
def getLinks(articleUrl):
html = urlopen("http://en.wikipedia.org"+articleUrl)
bsObj = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
return bsObj.find("div", {"id":"bodyContent"}).findAll("a",
href=re.compile("^(/wiki/)((?!:).)*$"))
links = getLinks("/wiki/Kevin_Bacon")
while len(links) > 0:
newArticle = links[random.randint(0, len(links)-1)].attrs["href"]
print(newArticle)
links = getLinks(newArticle)