Web Scraping - Output File

[Prasad, Ramit]

> > I am having some difficulty generating the output I want from web
> > scraping. Specifically, the script I wrote, while it runs without any
> > errors, is not writing to the output file correctly. It runs, and
> > creates the output .txt file; however, the file is blank (ideally it
> > should be populated with a list of names).
> >
> > I took the base of a program that I had before for a different data
> > gathering task, which worked beautifully, and edited it for my
> > purposes here. Any insight as to what I might be doing wrote would be
> > highly appreciated. Code is included below. Thanks!

> Your code is bound to break over and over (you should do some smarter
> parsing), but here's a working version:

Take a look at Beautiful Soup/lxml; considering the number of malformed web pages Beautiful Soup will probably work a better than lxml.

Ramit


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