import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import time HEADERS = { "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Education Purposes)" }
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# Adjust selector based on current Docsity HTML structure for item in soup.select(".document-item"): title_tag = item.select_one(".title a") if title_tag: title = title_tag.text.strip() link = title_tag["href"] results.append({"title": title, "url": f"https://docsity.com{link}"}) time.sleep(2) # Be gentle to the server docsity finder scraper
for page in range(1, pages+1): url = f"{base_url}{query}/?page={page}" print(f"Scraping: {url}") import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import time
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