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June 19, 2018 09:48
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This will work like the coincrawler in a more general way using the BeautifulSoup module.
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import urllib.parse | |
import urllib.request | |
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
from pprint import pprint | |
def urlReader(url): | |
print("") | |
print("fetching data from coinmarketcap.com") | |
req = urllib.request.Request(url) | |
resp = urllib.request.urlopen(req) | |
respData = resp.read() | |
soup = BeautifulSoup(respData, 'html.parser') | |
return soup | |
def main(): | |
url= 'http://coinmarketcap.com' | |
firstPrices=10 | |
soup = urlReader(url) | |
i=0 | |
dict={} | |
currencies=['Bitcoin', 'Ethereum', 'Bitcoin Cash', 'IOTA', 'Ripple', 'Dash', 'Litecoin', 'Bitcoin Gold', 'Monero', 'Cardano'] | |
#Using soups.select to find the price | |
print("") | |
print("writing dictonary...") | |
print("") | |
for price in soup.select('.price'): | |
#print first 10 statements | |
if i>=firstPrices: | |
break | |
dict[currencies[i]] = (price['data-usd'] + '$') | |
i = i + 1 | |
pprint(dict) | |
main() |
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