Quote Scraper Selenium

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Features
• Screenshots
• Launch
• Technologies

Introduction

Quote Scraper Selenium is a python application that scrapes the quote catalogue website, http://quotes.toscrape.com/search.aspx. It uses Selenium_ and the Chrome Web Driver to search the website for quotes by author and tag.

The purpose of this application was to become more familiar with browser automation with Selenium.

Features

• Scrapes the web site: http://quotes.toscrape.com/search.aspx
• Console menu with the options:
  • "Enter the author you'd like quotes from"
  • "Enter your tag"
• Uses Selenium, Chrome Web Driver, and user input to find a quote by an author that also matches a tag.
• Uses implicit waiting to wait for Browser JavaScript to run quote search.

Screenshots

Screenshot of Console Menu

Screenshot of Search Page Before Console Input

Screenshot of Search Page After Console Input

Launch

To run, in the console enter:

python app.py

Technologies

• Python 3.8.3

Python Modules

• Selenium
  • Allows automation of web browser interaction from Python.