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Crawl a website and gather all internal links with Python and BeautifulSoup.
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| # Adapted from example in Ch.3 of "Web Scraping With Python, Second Edition" by Ryan Mitchell | |
| import re | |
| import requests | |
| from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
| pages = set() | |
| def get_links(page_url): | |
| global pages | |
| pattern = re.compile("^(/)") | |
| html = requests.get(f"your_URL{page_url}").text # fstrings require Python 3.6+ | |
| soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") | |
| for link in soup.find_all("a", href=pattern): | |
| if "href" in link.attrs: | |
| if link.attrs["href"] not in pages: | |
| new_page = link.attrs["href"] | |
| print(new_page) | |
| pages.add(new_page) | |
| get_links(new_page) | |
| get_links("") |
Hi,
Thanks for the solution. I'm having similar issues as @spyros12, however I can't seem to implement his solution in a way that works.
Has anyone been able to solve this ?
Thanks!
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perfect project