Python Web Scraping: Check whether a page contains a title or not
Python Web Scraping: Exercise-11 with Solution
Write a Python program to check whether a page contains a title or not.
Sample Solution:
Python Code:
from urllib.request import urlopen
from urllib.error import HTTPError
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
def getTitle(url):
try:
html = urlopen(url)
except HTTPError as e:
return None
try:
bsObj = BeautifulSoup(html.read(), "lxml")
title = bsObj.body.h1
except AttributeError as e:
return None
return title
title = getTitle(url)
if title == None:
return "Title could not be found"
else:
return title
print(getTitle("https://www.w3resource.com/"))
print(getTitle("https://www.example.com/"))
Sample Output:
None <h1>Example Domain</h1>
Flowchart:
Python Code Editor:
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Python: Tips of the Day
Find current directory and file's directory:
To get the full path to the directory a Python file is contained in, write this in that file:
import os dir_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
(Note that the incantation above won't work if you've already used os.chdir() to change your current working directory, since the value of the __file__ constant is relative to the current working directory and is not changed by an os.chdir() call.)
To get the current working directory use
import os cwd = os.getcwd()
Documentation references for the modules, constants and functions used above:
- The os and os.path modules.
- The __file__ constant
- os.path.realpath(path) (returns "the canonical path of the specified filename, eliminating any symbolic links encountered in the path")
- os.path.dirname(path) (returns "the directory name of pathname path")
- os.getcwd() (returns "a string representing the current working directory")
- os.chdir(path) ("change the current working directory to path")
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