Sunday 1 July 2018

So I work in software now...


60 years of the Space Age x python = Scraping the Space Age

And being in software I do a lot of programming. Recently I made a python script using Requests and BeautifulSoup modules to scrape information about the Space Age from Wikipedia.

So that when I write the podcast I have a general idea what to write about.

Two birds with one stone. One hand I boost my python skills for work, on the other hand I support the development of  60 years of the Space Age podcast project that I do on YouTube.

This is the example HTML that I get.

Timeline of Space Exploration

 Timeline of Artificial Satellites and Space Probes

Timeline of the Space Race

The python script can be found on github: 

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