crawler.py

from urllib import urlopen
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup


def trade_spider(max_pages):
    page = 1
    while page <= max_pages:
        webpage = urlopen()"" + str(page)).read()
        req = urllib.request(url)
        handler = urllib.urlopen(req)

        # just get the code, no headers or anything
        plain_text = source_code.text
        # BeautifulSoup objects can be sorted through easy
        soup = BeautifulSoup(plain_text)
        for link in soup.findAll('a', {'class': 'item-name'}):
            href = "" + link.get('href')
            title = link.string  # just the text, not the HTML
            print(href)
            print(title)
            # get_single_item_data(href)
        page += 1


def get_single_item_data(item_url):
    source_code = requests.get(item_url)
    plain_text = source_code.text
    soup = BeautifulSoup(plain_text)
    # if you want to gather information from that page
    for item_name in soup.findAll('div', {'class': 'i-name'}):
        print(item_name.string)
    # if you want to gather links for a web crawler
    for link in soup.findAll('a'):
        href = "https://buckysroom.org" + link.get('href')
        print(href)


trade_spider(1)