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Getting Started with Beautiful Soup

You're reading from   Getting Started with Beautiful Soup Learn how to extract information from websites using Beautiful Soup and the Python urllib2 module. This practical, hands-on guide covers everything you need to know to get a head start in website scraping.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783289554
Length 130 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vineeth G Nair Vineeth G Nair
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Getting the selling price from Barnes and Noble


We have to use the same strategy we used for Amazon to find the selling price on the Barnes and Noble website. For this, we need to perform the following steps:

  1. Find the URL for each ISBN

  2. Find a way to scrape the selling price

The URL that can be used for Barnes and Noble is http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/ISBN, where ISBN is the ISBN value, for example, http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/1904811590).

Now, we have to find the selling price from the page. The page at Barnes and Noble will have the selling price listed in a div tag with the price class (highlighted) in the following screenshot:

We can find the selling price from Barnes and Noble using the following code:

def get_sellingprice_barnes(isbn):
  url_forbarnes = http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/
  url_for_isbn_inbarnes = url_forbarnes+isbn
  page = urllib2.urlopen(url_for_isbn_inbarnes,"lxml")
  soup_barnes = BeautifulSoup(page,"lxml")
  page.close()
  selling_price_tag = soup_barnes.find('div...
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