Web Scraping Quote Generator

This project demonstrates how to perform asynchronous web scraping using FastAPI, aiohttp, and BeautifulSoup. The application scrapes quotes from two websites: Quotes to Scrape and Goodreads Quotes.

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• FastAPI
• aiohttp
• BeautifulSoup4
• Requests

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/Petsamuel/Quotes.git
   

2. Create a virtual environment and activate it:

   python -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows use `venv\Scripts\activate`

3. Install the dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

Running the Application

1. Start the FastAPI server:

   uvicorn main:app --reload

2. Open your browser and navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ to see the scraped quotes.

Project Files

• main.py: The main FastAPI application file that handles the asynchronous scraping.
• requirements.txt: Contains all the dependencies

Usage

The application scrapes quotes from the specified URLs and returns them as a JSON response. The scraping is done asynchronously to improve performance and handle multiple requests concurrently.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.