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Grabs Definition section from Google search result!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It works actually!
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DefinationFromGoogle.py
import requests
import BeautifulSoup
from sys import argv
word = "tied"
if __name__ == "__main__":
if len(argv)>2:
word = argv[1]
data = requests.get("https://www.google.com/search?q=definition+%s"%word)
dom = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(data.text.encode("utf-8"))
fp = open("D:/originalPage.html","w")
fp.write(data.text.encode("utf-8"))
fp.close()
print("####SOUPS####")
results= dom.findAll("li",{"class":"g"})
for result in results:
if len(result.contents) == 1:
m = result.renderContents()
fp = open("D:/parsed.html","w")
fp.write("<html>")
fp.write(m)
fp.write("</html>")
fp.close()
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