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Web Scraper

• Class: Scripting Languages
• Grade: A
• Language(s): Python
• Source Code Repository: features/mastering-markdown
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Project description

This program uses the beautiful soup library from python to extract information from the URL “https://www.python.org/jobs/ to list out the jobs and job details in the command line. The code is based on how the website is structured after analyzing it using inspect.

How to run the program

To run the program use the command:

python scraper.py

UI Design

When the user runs the program they will see the title, location, job type, category, and date posted for jobs from python.org/jobs website

Fig 1. Jobs from website

Fig 2. Jobs from website

Fig 3. Jobs from website

3. Additional Considerations

The ‘requests’ library and ‘beautiful soup’ library both need to be installed if they are not installed, To install use the commands: python -m pip install requests pip install beautifulsoup4

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