Description

Little demo using site scraping to grab the Wikiquote "Quote of the day". The URL to the website, for reference, is https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page

Dependencies

• Python 3
• BeautifulSoup
• Requests

Execution steps

It is recommended to work inside a Python Virtual Environment. The following steps include this.

• Install a new python virtual environment using python3 -m venv env
• Activate the virtual environment using . env/bin/activate
• Install the required libraries using pip install -r requirements.txt
• Change permissions on the main executable python file chmod u+x quote-grabber.py
• Run the script using ./quote-grabber.py

Possible use cases

Initially I used it to set a new motd in the vm's. But it can be used for other similar purposes.