Merge pull request 'scraper_functions' (#1 ) from scraper_functions into master

Reviewed-on: #1
2024-02-06 01:24:57 +00:00
1 changed files with 5 additions and 8 deletions
--- a/scraper_functions.py
+++ b/scraper_functions.py
@@ -2,11 +2,8 @@ import requests
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

 def query_external_website(base_url, query):
-    try:
-        page = requests.get(base_url + query)
-        soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, "html.parser")
-        title = soup.find("span", class_="mw-page-title-main").text
-        content = soup.find(id="mw-content-text").select("p")[2].text
-        return "\nTITLE:\n" + title + "\n\nCONTENT:\n" + content + "\n\nFULL LINK:\n" + base_url + query
-    except:
-        return "Can't parse search result :("
+    page = requests.get(base_url + query)
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, "html.parser")
+    title = soup.find("span", class_="mw-page-title-main").text
+    content = soup.find(id="mw-content-text").select("p")[2].text
+    return "\nTITLE:\n" + title + "\n\nCONTENT:\n" + content + "\n\nFULL LINK:\n" + base_url + query