Python | Program to crawl a web page and get most frequent words

The task is to count the most frequent words, which extracts data from dynamic sources.

First, create a web-crawler with the help of requests module and beautiful soup module, which will extract data from the web-pages and store them in a list. There might be some undesired words or symbols (like special symbols, blankspaces), which can be filtered inorder to ease the counts and get the desired results. After counting each word, we also can have the count of most (say 10 or 20) frequent words.

Modules and Library functions used :

requests : Will allow you to send HTTP/1.1 requests and many more.
beautifulsoup4 : For pulling data out of HTML and XML files.
operator : Exports a set of efficient functions corresponding to the intrinsic operators.
collections : Implements high-performance container datatypes.

Below is the implementation of above discussed idea :

# Python3 program for a word frequency 
# counter after crawling a web-page 
import requests 
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup 
import operator 
from collections import Counter 
  
'''Function defining the web-crawler/core 
spider, which will fetch information from 
a given website, and push the contents to 
the second  function clean_wordlist()'''
def start(url): 
  
    # empty list to store the contents of  
    # the website fetched from our web-crawler 
    wordlist = [] 
    source_code = requests.get(url).text 
  
    # BeautifulSoup object which will 
    # ping the requested url for data 
    soup = BeautifulSoup(source_code, 'html.parser') 
  
    # Text in given web-page is stored under 
    # the <div> tags with class <entry-content> 
    for each_text in soup.findAll('div', {'class':'entry-content'}): 
        content = each_text.text 
  
        # use split() to break the sentence into  
        # words and convert them into lowercase  
        words = content.lower().split() 
          
        for each_word in words: 
            wordlist.append(each_word) 
        clean_wordlist(wordlist) 
  
# Function removes any unwanted symbols 
def clean_wordlist(wordlist): 
      
    clean_list =[] 
    for word in wordlist: 
        symbols = '!@#$%^&*()_-+={[}]|\;:"<>?/., '
          
        for i in range (0, len(symbols)): 
            word = word.replace(symbols[i], '') 
              
        if len(word) > 0: 
            clean_list.append(word) 
    create_dictionary(clean_list) 
  
# Creates a dictionary conatining each word's  
# count and top_20 ocuuring words 
def create_dictionary(clean_list): 
    word_count = {} 
      
    for word in clean_list: 
        if word in word_count: 
            word_count[word] += 1
        else: 
            word_count[word] = 1
              
    ''' To get count of each word in 
        the crawled page --> 
          
    # operator.itemgetter() takes one  
    # parameter either 1(denotes keys) 
    # or 0 (denotes corresponding values) 
      
    for key, value in sorted(word_count.items(), 
                    key = operator.itemgetter(1)): 
        print ("% s : % s " % (key, value)) 
          
    <-- '''
  
      
    c = Counter(word_count) 
      
    # returns the most occurring elements 
    top = c.most_common(10) 
    print(top) 
  
# Driver code 
if __name__ == '__main__': 
    start("https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/programming-language-choose/") 

[('to', 10), ('in', 7), ('is', 6), ('language', 6), ('the', 5),
 ('programming', 5), ('a', 5), ('c', 5), ('you', 5), ('of', 4)]

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