Screen Scraping with Python

at dos command enter pip.exe install pyautogui

Start Power Shell and install beautifulsoup4->bs4

pip install bs4

python

>>> import bs4

>>> from urllib.request import urlopen as uReq

>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup

The code scrape_example_002

Search for a string in python

SearchMe = "The apple is red and the berry is blue!"  
print(SearchMe.find("is"))  
print(SearchMe.rfind("is"))  
print(SearchMe.count("is"))  
print(SearchMe.startswith("The"))  
print(SearchMe.endswith("The"))  
print(SearchMe.replace("apple", "car") 
  .replace("berry", "truck"))

Python cheat-sheet

working with images in Python

Pasting an image on another image

# Extract the "Weather Headline excluding the temperature"
# Please review this YouTube.
# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQgXKtPSzUI

import bs4
from urllib.request import urlopen as uReq
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup
my_url = 'https://darksky.net/forecast/-37.5617,143.8548/ca24/en'

uClient = uReq(my_url) # open a connection, grabbing the page
page_html = uClient.read() # Save the contents of the page
uClient.close() # Close the connection to the page

# use BeautifulSoup to parse the page_html
page_soup = soup(page_html,"html.parser")
weather_headline = page_soup.find("span", {"summary swap"})
testStr = ''.join(weather_headline)

# Search for the non-breaking space after the degree symbol note: \xa0 is a non-breaking space
position = 0
characterAtPosition = testStr[position:position + 1]

# note: \xa0 is a non-breaking space character
while characterAtPosition != "\xa0":
  characterAtPosition = testStr[position:position + 1]
  # print("characterAtPosition " + str(position) + " = " + characterAtPosition )
  position = position + 1

position_Of_Non_Breaking_sapce = position 
# print("position_Of_Non_Breaking_sapce = " + str(position_Of_Non_Breaking_sapce))

weather_headline = testStr[position_Of_Non_Breaking_sapce:len(testStr)]
print(weather_headline)

Next to scrape:

https://www.accuweather.com/en/au/ballarat/15875/current-weather/15875