In wordpress how can I scrape and show social media data of users like in upfluence.com and shoutcart.com? I need to show instagram followers and youtube subscriber counts and other data in each users profile.
I wanted to write a piece of code like the following: But I found that I have to install urllib3 package now. Moreover, I couldn’t find any tutorial or example to understand how to rewrite the above code, for example, urllib3 does not have urlopen. Any explanation or example, please?! P/S: I’m using python 3.4.
Nope, BeautifulSoup, by itself, does not support XPath expressions. An alternative library, lxml, does support XPath 1.0. It has a BeautifulSoup compatible mode where it’ll try and parse broken HTML the way Soup does. However, the default lxml HTML parser does just as good a job of parsing broken HTML, and I believe is faster. … Read more
Python 2 Here is a more straightforward way if all you want to do is save it as a file: The second argument is the local path where the file should be saved. Python 3 As SergO suggested the code below should work with Python 3.
There are several ways of doing this. This is an answer that I write hoping that all the basics of Internet Explorer automation will be found when browsing for the keywords “scraping data from website”, but remember that nothing’s worth as your own research (if you don’t want to stick to pre-written codes that you’re … Read more
You can refine your search to only find those divs with a given class using BS3:
Self plug: I have just released a new Java HTML parser: jsoup. I mention it here because I think it will do what you are after. Its party trick is a CSS selector syntax to find elements, e.g.: See the Selector javadoc for more info. This is a new project, so any ideas for improvement are very welcome!
You cannot have a multiline plain scalar, such as your include:false transitions be the key to a mapping, that is why you get the mapping values not allowed in this context error. Either you forgot that you have to have a space after the value indicator (:), and you meant to do: or you need to quote … Read more
[:] is the array slice syntax for every element in the array. This answer here goes more in depth of the general uses: Explain Python’s slice notation
This is probably because of mod_security or some similar server security feature which blocks known spider/bot user agents (urllib uses something like python urllib/3.3.0, it’s easily detected). Try setting a known browser user agent with: This works for me. By the way, in your code you are missing the () after .read in the urlopen … Read more