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publiclibraries.com scraper
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# publiclibraries.com scraper | |
import BeautifulSoup | |
import urllib2 | |
l = [("http://www.publiclibraries.com/alabama.htm","AL"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/alaska.htm","AK"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/arizona.htm","AZ"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/arkansas.htm","AR"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/california.htm","CA"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/colorado.htm","CO"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/connecticut.htm","CT"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/delaware.htm","DE"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/dc.htm","DC"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/florida.htm","FL"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/georgia.htm","GA"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/hawaii.htm","HI"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/idaho.htm","ID"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/illinois.htm","IL"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/indiana.htm","IN"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/iowa.htm","IA"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/kansas.htm","KS"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/kentucky.htm","KY"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/louisiana.htm","LA"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/maine.htm","ME"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/maryland.htm","MD"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/massachusetts.htm","MA"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/michigan.htm","MI"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/minnesota.htm","MN"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/mississippi.htm","MS"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/missouri.htm","MO"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/montana.htm","MT"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/nebraska.htm","NE"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/nevada.htm","NV"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/newhampshire.htm","NH"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/newjersey.htm","NJ"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/newmexico.htm","NM"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/newyork.htm","NY"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/northcarolina.htm","NC"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/northdakota.htm","ND"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/ohio.htm","OH"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/oklahoma.htm","OK"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/oregon.htm","OR"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/pennsylvania.htm","PA"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/rhodeisland.htm","RI"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/southcarolina.htm","SC"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/southdakota.htm","SD"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/tennessee.htm","TN"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/texas.htm","TX"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/utah.htm","UT"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/vermont.htm","VT"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/virginia.htm","VA"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/washington.htm","WA"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/westvirginia.htm","WV"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/wisconsin.htm","WI"), | |
("http://www.publiclibraries.com/wyoming.htm","WY") | |
`] | |
z = open("output.csv","w") | |
for i, j in l: | |
o = urllib2.urlopen(i) | |
soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(o) | |
t = soup.findAll('table')[1:] #grab table of data | |
for table in t: | |
rows = table.findAll('tr') | |
for tr in rows: | |
cols = tr.findAll('td') | |
z.write(j) | |
z.write(",") | |
for td in cols: | |
t = td.find() | |
if not "<strong>" in str(t): | |
if t!=None: | |
z.write(str(td.find())) | |
else: | |
z.write("\"") | |
z.write(str(td.find(text=True))) | |
z.write("\"") | |
z.write(",") | |
z.write("\n") |
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