🌐 Introduction

In this project, you’ll create a Web Scraper App in Python that extracts quotes, authors, and tags from a live website.
You’ll use the BeautifulSoup and Requests libraries to fetch and parse HTML data — one of the most valuable skills in data collection and automation.
🧠 Key Concepts Covered
| Concept | Description |
|---|---|
| Web Scraping | The process of automatically extracting information from websites. |
| Requests | A Python library that retrieves HTML content from URLs. |
| BeautifulSoup | A library that parses and navigates HTML or XML documents. |
🧰 What You’ll Need
- Python 3 installed
- Libraries:
requests,beautifulsoup4
(Install usingpip install requests beautifulsoup4)
We’ll use a public test website: quotes.toscrape.com — designed specifically for web scraping practice.
💻 Step-by-Step Code
File Name: quote_scraper.py
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
URL = "https://quotes.toscrape.com"
response = requests.get(URL)
if response.status_code == 200:
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")
quotes = soup.find_all("div", class_="quote")
print("💬 Quotes from the Website:\n")
for quote in quotes:
text = quote.find("span", class_="text").text
author = quote.find("small", class_="author").text
tags = [tag.text for tag in quote.find_all("a", class_="tag")]
print(f"📝 Quote: {text}")
print(f"👤 Author: {author}")
print(f"🏷️ Tags: {', '.join(tags)}\n")
else:
print("⚠️ Failed to retrieve the page. Check your connection.")
🧩 Example Output
💬 Quotes from the Website:
📝 Quote: “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking.”
👤 Author: Albert Einstein
🏷️ Tags: change, deep-thoughts, thinking, world
📝 Quote: “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are.”
👤 Author: J.K. Rowling
🏷️ Tags: choices
⚙️ How It Works
- The
requestsmodule fetches the HTML page. BeautifulSoupparses the HTML content.- The program extracts specific elements — text, author, and tags.
- Finally, it prints the data in a clean and readable format.
🚀 Bonus Enhancements
- Save all quotes to a CSV file using
pandasorcsv. - Scrape multiple pages using pagination links.
- Add an option to search quotes by keyword.
- Create a GUI interface with
tkinter.
🧠 Summary
- You built a Python Web Scraper using
BeautifulSoupandrequests. - You learned how to extract specific data from HTML elements.
- This project forms the foundation for data mining, automation, and AI-powered datasets.