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QuoteScraper 📜

A simple practice scraper tool that fetches and compiles quotes from quotes.toscrape.com.

Description

Simple script to scrape quotes.toscrape.com and gather an assortment of inspiring and thought-provoking quotes. The extracted quotes, along with their respective authors and tags, are neatly organized and stored in a text file for easy access and future reference.

Features

  • Comprehensive Scraping: Fetches quotes from multiple pages seamlessly.
  • Detailed Extraction: Each quote is accompanied by its author and associated tags.
  • Text File Storage: Automatically saves the fetched quotes in a structured format to a text file.
  • Built with BeautifulSoup: Utilizes the power and flexibility of BeautifulSoup for web scraping.

Setup

  1. Install the required libraries:

    pip install requests beautifulsoup4

Usage

After setting up, navigate to the directory containing the script:

  1. Run the QuoteScraper:

    python quotes.py

  2. Once the script completes, check the generated quotes.txt file for all the scraped quotes.