Bhagavat Gita From Web Scraping

Web Scraping and retrieving different chapters and verse of the Holy Bhagvat Gita.

Why?

I was bored and wanted to read The Bhagavad Gita.

Usage

Install Python 3.6+.

Go to python Download Page.

1. Install requirements

    pip3 install -r requirements.txt

PIP is a cross-platform package manager for installing and managing Python packages (which can be found in the Python Package Index)

The above command will install following pacakages.

• BeautifulSoup4
• Requests

2. Run main.py and follow along

python3 main.py

Feature List

• You could choose among different options:
  • Retrieve: Everything - All 700 verses
  • Retrieve: A single chapter - All verses from selected chapter
  • Retrieve: Specific verse from a specific chapter
  • Retrieve and display a random quote & more..
• You could choose to save output file in:
  • Markdown (.md) format (Recommended)
  • Or text (.txt) format
• CTRL + C (^C) will terminate and abort the program in any given time
• And more..

What's New

• Re-wrote all code from scratch (made more readable and understandable code then before).
• Moved all the functions to separate file (myfunctions.py).
• Menu now is cleaner and has more options.
• Should work in Linux and OS X as well (Not Tested).
• Your won't ever see an traceback.

Code in Action Screenshots

Code in Action

Sample output file in Markdown file format

Sample output file in Text file format

What's Coming

• Add Readme file
• Retrieve and download Original verse audio

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