page.find_all(True) – returns all html tags in the beautifulsoup html page if word in i.text: – check for a match in every tag’s text component, wrapped in try/fail in case a tag has no text component.
Honestly, this should be a default setting for the requests library. Without it, your code is doomed if you get any connection errors. Add a ‘try’ when connecting to your URL, then use these exceptions to let your code keep running if there are any errors. This works great for when you’re scraping many URLs …
In yesterday’s post, I wrote about how I learned how to set up a local SMTP server. I came across a problem that I couldn’t solve, and it started getting late. What’s kind of stupid about sending emails is the fact that you need to stuff all the important data into one big message. For …
I needed to send a lot of emails. I didn’t want to deal with an email sending company like MailChimp. I knew Python had some libraries that handled SMTP. I thought I’d check it out to see if I can build a localized email server and just send emails from my PC. Python’s smtplib library …