Script to download Medium articles added

Author: namrun

Web-Scraping/medium-article-downloader.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+#Imports and dependencies
+
+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+#The content is written into a text file
+
+file = open("Medium_article_content.txt", "w")
+
+#The URL of the article is entered here
+page_url = input("Enter the URL of the Medium Article ")
+
+#Based on the response got from the URL, the content is loaded into response
+
+response = requests.get(page_url)
+
+#Beautiful soup is a library used for web scraping and parsing the contents of a web page
+#Here a html parser is used to parse through the content embedded in the html tags
+
+soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text,"html.parser")
+
+#The content of the article is stored in the <article> tag
+
+for line in soup.find('article').find('div'):
+  
+  #All the content is essentially stored between <p> tags
+  
+  for content in line.find_all('p'):
+
+    #contents are written into a file
+    
+    file.write(content.text + '\n')
+
+file.close()