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Python Django Class-based Views Classy Views The View Class

Posted by Rod Delaporte
Rod Delaporte
38 Points

Can I make a scraper written in python to transform it into a Django Web App using CBV?

I have a Spyder app written in Python and I'm wondering if I can make it to work with Django https://github.com/buckyrob

1 Answer

Jeff Muday
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Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,722 Points
Jeff Muday
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,722 Points

Sounds like you have some interesting ideas to work on!

You can definitely create a CBV or FBV in Django that could encapsulate web scraping. Pretty much anything you can do with a CBV can be done with an FBV -- I have a slight preference for FBV as it is a little more accessible to Django beginning and intermediate learners.

Linked below, is a simple tutorial I found that covers that a developer writing code to read <H1> tags on a website. She is doing it with an FBV, but nothing prevents someone from rewriting the function-based-view into a class-based-view. Her web scraping functionality is combining the popular "requests" library written by Kenneth Reitz with the "Beautiful Soup" HTML parsing library.

https://pytutorial.com/working-with-django-beautifulsoup-and-requests

Rod Delaporte
Rod Delaporte
38 Points

Thanks a lot. This gives me the perspective on how to start using CBV for this project. It seems much easier with FBV though. CHeers