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from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib.request
base_url = 'http://book.flowingdata.com/vt2/ch3/scraping/'
# Header
print("famindex,AGE,FTOTINC")
for i in range(1, 21):
# Page URL, based on page number
page_url = base_url + 'family-income-page'+str(i)+'.html'
# Open the page
req = urllib.request.Request(page_url)
with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as response:
# Save page contents.
the_page = response.read()
# Parse.
soup = BeautifulSoup(the_page, features="html.parser")
# Get the table rows
rows = soup.find_all("tr")
# Save each row of data
for j in range(1, len(rows)):
# Get the cells in a row
cells = rows[j].findAll("td")
# Comma-delimited row
print(cells[0].string + "," + cells[1].string + "," + cells[2].string)