Scraping data using Regular Expression.ipynb

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   "source": [
    "## Part 1: Using Beautiful Soup"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## Import Modules"
   ]
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  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 1,
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   "source": [
    "from bs4 import BeautifulSoup\n",
    "import requests\n",
    "import re"
   ]
  },
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   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## Get the Data using URL"
   ]
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   "execution_count": 2,
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   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "url = \"https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/\""
   ]
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   "execution_count": 3,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "HEADERS = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 12_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148'}"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 4,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "<Response [200]>"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 4,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "# get page data\n",
    "page = requests.get(url, headers=HEADERS)\n",
    "page"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 15,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "# page.content"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 20,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "# parse the data\n",
    "soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, 'html.parser')\n",
    "# print(soup.prettify())"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## Regex to find particular class"
   ]
  },
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 24,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "<div class=\"ipc-title__description\">IMDb Top 250 as rated by regular IMDb voters</div>"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 24,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "tag = soup.find('div', string=re.compile(r'by+'))\n",
    "tag"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 25,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'IMDb Top 250 as rated by regular IMDb voters'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 25,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "tag.text"
   ]
  },
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   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## Part 2: Using Regular Expression"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 26,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "# page.text"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 27,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "['IMDb Top 250 Movies', 'IMDb, an Amazon company']"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 27,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "re.findall(r'<title>(.*?)</title>', page.text)"
   ]
  },
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 28,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "[('<title>IMDb Top 250 Movies</title>', 'IMDb Top 250 Movies'),\n",
       " ('<title>IMDb, an Amazon company</title>', 'IMDb, an Amazon company')]"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 28,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "re.findall(r'(<title>(.*?)</title>)', page.text)"
   ]
  },
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": null,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": []
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