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Scrape lyrics from azlyrics.com
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import requests | |
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
url = "http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/onyx/bacdafucup.html" | |
print "Default request (it will fail)..." | |
# make the default request | |
try: | |
r = requests.get(url) | |
except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e: | |
print e | |
print "User-Agent request (it will pass)..." | |
# act like a mac | |
headers = {'User-Agent':"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.112 Safari/534.30"} | |
# make a request for the data | |
r = requests.get(url, headers=headers) | |
# convert the response text to soup | |
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, "lxml") | |
# get the goods | |
for goods in soup.find_all("div", {"class":None}): | |
if len(goods.text) == 0: pass | |
print goods.text |
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Thanks btw,
Here is a python3 compatible fork