Quotes Web Scraper

A Python web scraper that extracts quotes, authors, and tags from quotes.toscrape.com and saves them to CSV.

Features

• Scrapes all pages automatically using pagination logic
• Extracts data - quote text, author name, and tags
• Exports to CSV using Pandas for easy analysis
• Error handling for failed requests and timeouts
• Rate limiting friendly with delay between requests

Tech Stack

• Python 3
• Requests - HTTP requests to fetch pages
• BeautifulSoup4 - HTML parsing
• Pandas - Data structuring + CSV export

Installation

git clone https://github.com/Shivanshi9522/python-web-scraper.git
cd python-web-scraper
pip install requests beautifulsoup4 pandas

Usage

python scraper.py

Output saved to quotes.csv

Future Improvements

1. Add CLI args for page limit or specific tag
2. Scrape author bio pages
3. Export to JSON or SQLite