Scrape melskitchencafe.com for recipes

python_scraper.py

# Before running this script, install requests, beautifulsoup4

import requests as req
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = "http://www.melskitchencafe.com/vanilla-buttermilk-cupcakes-and-fantastic-easy-buttercream-frosting/"
html = req.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(html.text)

print "This is a recipe for: "
recipe_title = soup.find(id="zlrecipe-title").string
print(recipe_title)

print("Ingredients")
ingredients = soup.find(id="zlrecipe-ingredients-list")
for ingredient in ingredients:
  # possibly save in list
  # list.append(ingredient.string.rstrip())
  print(ingredient.string)

print("Instructions")
instructions = soup.find(id="zlrecipe-instructions-list")
for step in instructions:
  # possibly save in list
  # list.append(step.string.rstrip())
  print(step.string)