jiko
/ rapgenius_scraper.py
Created
November 4, 2013 17:06
Scrapes Rap Genius for song lyrics. Leaves some mess to clean up in the output.
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| import requests # for grabbing pages | |
| from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # for parsing pages | |
| import codecs | |
| # grab page | |
| root = "http://rapgenius.com" | |
| path = "/artists/2-chainz" | |
| page = requests.get(root+path) | |
| # load downloaded page into BS |