https://github.com/aadewunmi/following-links-in-html-using-beautifulsoup

This program will use urllib to read the HTML from the data files below, extract the href= vaues from the anchor tags, scan for a tag that is in a particular position relative to the first name in the list, follow that link and repeat the process a number of times and report the last name you find.
https://github.com/aadewunmi/following-links-in-html-using-beautifulsoup

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This program will use urllib to read the HTML from the data files below, extract the href= vaues from the anchor tags, scan for a tag that is in a particular position relative to the first name in the list, follow that link and repeat the process a number of times and report the last name you find.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/aadewunmi/following-links-in-html-using-beautifulsoup
• Owner: AAdewunmi
• Created: 2019-07-29T16:05:52.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-07-30T07:11:44.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-25T06:11:36.535Z (9 months ago)
• Language: Python
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• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Following-Links-in-HTML-Using-BeautifulSoup

This program will use urllib to read the HTML from the data files below,

extract the href= vaues from the anchor tags, scan for a tag that is in a

particular position relative to the first name in the list, follow that link and repeat

the process a number of times and report the last name you find.

Actual problem: Start at: http://py4e-data.dr-chuck.net/known_by_Dayna.html

Find the link at position 18 (the first name is 1). Follow that link. Repeat this process 7 times.

The answer is the last name that you retrieve.

Hint: The first character of the name of the last page that you will load is: A

Sample execution

Here is a sample execution of a solution:

$ python3 solution.py

Enter URL: http://py4e-data.dr-chuck.net/known_by_Fikret.html

Enter count: 4

Enter position: 3

Retrieving: http://py4e-data.dr-chuck.net/known_by_Fikret.html

Retrieving: http://py4e-data.dr-chuck.net/known_by_Montgomery.html

Retrieving: http://py4e-data.dr-chuck.net/known_by_Mhairade.html

Retrieving: http://py4e-data.dr-chuck.net/known_by_Butchi.html

Retrieving: http://py4e-data.dr-chuck.net/known_by_Anayah.html

The answer to the assignment for this execution is "Anayah".