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Author: Svagtlys

Diff for: DecodeAWebPage.py

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+import requests #Getting html from a site
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup #parses that disgustingness from requests (ty bs)
+
+# Use the BeautifulSoup and requests Python packages to print out a list
+# of all the article titles on the New York Times homepage.
+# https://www.nytimes.com/
+
+# I poked around a bit and even looked in the comments at some of the videos
+# but nothing worked, so I went to the solution on this one.  4 chilis, not
+# so disappointed in myself for finally breaking on a problem. I did add
+# comments so I would understand it.
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    base_url = 'http://www.nytimes.com' # the url
+    r = requests.get(base_url) #the source code
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text,features="html.parser") #the html goes into BeautifulSoup
+    print("0") #Are we even getting to the loop? Yes
+    print(soup.find_all(class_="story-heading")) #there's nothing in class_="story-heading"
+    for story_heading in soup.find_all(class_="story-heading"): # a list of found bits of the soup that contains the class "story-heading"
+        print("1") #the "Solution" isn't working, so I added this to test if the loop did anything, and it doesn't?
+        if story_heading.a: #link version
+            print(story_heading.a.text.replace("\n", " ").strip())
+        else: #not a link version
+            print(story_heading.contents[0].strip())
+    
+#       MORAL OF THE CODE
+#        It doesn't work