Python Web Scraping: Extract and display all the image links from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jeffrey_(RAAF_officer)

Last update on December 21 2024 07:49:21 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Write a Python program to extract and display all the image links from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jeffrey_(RAAF_officer).

Sample Solution:

Python Code:

from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re

html = urlopen('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jeffrey_(RAAF_officer)')
bs = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
images = bs.find_all('img', {'src':re.compile('.jpg')})
for image in images: 
    print(image['src']+'\n')

Sample Output:

//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/NlaJeffrey1942-43.jpg/220px-NlaJeffrey1942-43.jpg

//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/008315JeffreyTurnbull1941.jpg/260px-008315JeffreyTurnbull1941.jpg

//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/021807CameronJeffrey1941.jpg

//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/AC0072JeffreyTruscottKittyhawks1942.jpg/280px-AC0072JeffreyTruscottKittyhawks1942.jpg

//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/VIC1689Jeffrey1945.jpg/280px-VIC1689Jeffrey1945.jpg
 

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