Sometimes we need a handy web page on your local hard drive. So, here we are going to write a simple Python script to Scrap a web page. Web scraping is used for extracting data from websites for offline reading, storage, or whatever reason. Before writing the script we need to know pywebcopy. pywebcopy is available on PyPi and is easily installable using pip. Type the below command in the terminal to install this module
pip install pywebcopy
pywebcopy Python package for cloning complete web pages and websites to local storage.
Approach:
- Import pywebcopy
- Pass the argument into the save_webpage(url=”…”,project_folder=”path/download”,kwargs)
- Check on your given location.
Below is the implementation.
Python3
from pywebcopy import save_webpagekwargs = {'project_name': 'site folder'}save_webpage( # url of the website # folder where the copy will be saved project_folder='F:/ro/geek', **kwargs) |
Output:
The complete clone of the webpage is made and stored in the specified location.
