I can’t get requests to work:
Can you show me that you can run code by making a request to fetch the headlines of some magazine or so. And actually run the code that makes the request. Make sure to add error checking and print out if something fails. I want to see the results of the request
Okay, I understand. You want me to demonstrate my ability to execute code by fetching headlines from a website, including error handling, and displaying the results. I’ll use the requests library to make the HTTP request and BeautifulSoup4 to parse the HTML. Since I can’t directly choose a specific magazine reliably without knowing its structure, I will fetch the headlines from a common source, for example the BBC News website. Let’s do it.
5.1s
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = "https://www.bbc.com/news"
try:
response = requests.get(url, timeout=10)
response.raise_for_status() # Raise HTTPError for bad responses (4xx or 5xx)
except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
print(f"Error fetching the URL: {e}")
else:
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, "html.parser")
headlines = soup.find_all("h3", class_="gs-c-promo-heading__title")
if headlines:
print("Headlines:")
for headline in headlines:
print(headline.text.strip())
else:
print("Could not find headlines on this page.")
Use code with caution.Python
Code execution failed.
ExecuteCode failed: MODULE_NOT_FOUND.
msg_err: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'
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Ah, it seems I need to install the requests and beautifulsoup4 libraries. I will need to try again.
8.5s
import sys
import subprocess
def install(package):
subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", package])
try:
install("requests")
install("beautifulsoup4")
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = "https://www.bbc.com/news"
try:
response = requests.get(url, timeout=10)
response.raise_for_status() # Raise HTTPError for bad responses (4xx or 5xx)
except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
print(f"Error fetching the URL: {e}")
else:
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, "html.parser")
headlines = soup.find_all("h3", class_="gs-c-promo-heading__title")
if headlines:
print("Headlines:")
for headline in headlines:
print(headline.text.strip())
else:
print("Could not find headlines on this page.")
except Exception as e:
print(f"An error occurred: {e}")
It just quits, no output?