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Scraping Numbers from HTML using BeautifulSoup. The program will use urllib to read the HTML from the data files below, and parse the data, extracting numbers and compute the sum of the numbers in the file.
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#Actual data: http://py4e-data.dr-chuck.net/comments_24964.html (Sum ends with 73) | |
from urllib import request | |
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
html=request.urlopen('http://python-data.dr-chuck.net/comments_24964.html').read() | |
soup = BeautifulSoup(html) | |
tags=soup('span') | |
sum=0 | |
for tag in tags: | |
sum=sum+int(tag.contents[0]) | |
print(sum) |
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uninstall the zip folder and the extracted folder of bs4 and install it using your command prompt by typing: -
pip install beautifulsoup4