This piece of code will scrape the google search result and find the current crypto price.
Before we proceed we have to install some libraries. The libraries are as follows :
Note: To install these packages you need to go to command-prompt(windows)/terminal(linux)
Request: Requests make it very simple to send HTTP requests.
pip install requests
BeautifulSoup: Beautiful Soup is a package that makes scraping data from web pages simple. It sits on top of an HTML or XML parser.
pip install beautifulsoup4
Lxml: It is a parser on which BeautifulSoup works.
pip install lxml
Step1: Ask the user to give the crypto name.
Step2: Make a suitable URL for google search
Step3: Catch the Request as a text file to see the web content
Step4: Make a soup using BeautifulSoup with lxml parser.
Step5: By inspecting google search results collect the appropriate div, class, etc of the html.
Step6: Print the result
Output:
Submitted by Omprakash Biswas (creativeapurba)
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