Script needs to be updated

[omix12]

Hello, unfortunately it returns an empty .csv file. Could you update it?

Thank you in advance.

[Mallikarjun2k]

TRY THIS
IT MAY WORKS..!

import urllib3
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import os
import csv
import unicodedata
import pandas as pd

def get_links(tag, suffix):
url = 'https://medium.com/tag/' + tag
urls = [url + '/' + s for s in suffix]
links = []
for url in urls:
data = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(data.content, 'html.parser')
articles = soup.findAll('div', {"class": "postArticle-readMore"})
for i in articles:
links.append(i.a.get('href'))
return links

def get_article(links):
articles = []
for link in links:
try:
article = {}
data = requests.get(link)

        soup = BeautifulSoup(data.content, 'html.parser')
        author=[]
        title = soup.findAll('title')[0]
        title = title.get_text()
        article['title'] = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', title)
        #print(article['title'])

        author = soup.findAll('meta', {"name": "author"})[0]
        author = author.get('content')
        article['author'] = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', author)
        paras = soup.findAll('p')
        text = ''
        nxt_line = '\n'
        for para in paras:
            text += unicodedata.normalize('NFKD',para.get_text()) + nxt_line
        article['text'] = text
        
        articles.append(article)
        
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        print('Exiting')
        os._exit(status = 0)
    except:
        continue
    

return articles

def save_articles(articles, csv_file, is_write = True):
csv_columns = ['title','author','text']
print(csv_file)
if is_write:
with open(csv_file, 'w',encoding="UTF-8") as csvfile:
writer = csv.DictWriter(csvfile, fieldnames=csv_columns, delimiter='|')
writer.writeheader()
for data in articles:
writer.writerow(data)
csvfile.close()
else:
with open(csv_file, 'a+',encoding="UTF-8") as csvfile:
writer = csv.DictWriter(csvfile, fieldnames=csv_columns, delimiter='|')
for data in articles:
writer.writerow(data)
csvfile.close()

if name == 'main':
is_write = True
tags = input('Write tags in space separated format.\n')
tags = tags.split(' ')
file_name = input('Write destination file name.\n')
if len(file_name.split('.')) == 1:
file_name += '.csv'
suffixes = ['', 'latest', 'archive/2000',
'archive/2010', 'archive/2011', 'archive/2012', 'archive/2013', 'archive/2014', 'archive/2015', 'archive/2016', 'archive/2017', 'archive/2018']
for tag in tags:
links = get_links(tag, suffixes)
articles = get_article(links)
save_articles(articles, file_name, is_write)
is_write = False
# To remove duplicates
articles = pd.read_csv(file_name, file_name, delimiter=None)
articles = articles.drop_duplicates()
articles.to_csv(file_name, sep='|', index=False)