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[antonuzzo]

I'm not massively au fait with the world of coding and scripting, so sorry if this seems like a daft question!

What I'd like to do is to pull up a number of web pages in sequence (for example: https://www.karaoke-version.co.uk/suggestion_10.html – I'd want to load suggestion_9, suggestion_10, suggestion_11 etc.) and search for a string of text in each page.

The last time I did any sort of coding was BASIC, where I'd probably use a FOR / NEXT loop – that was a long time ago though. If anyone could give me pointers on how to do this it would be very welcome!

 

[VBService]

For this case I suggest use python with package called "requests" to fetch web pages and package "beautifulsoup4" for parsing the HTML content, e.g.

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# Define the URL pattern and search string
base_url = "https://www.karaoke-version.co.uk/suggestion_{}.html"
search_string = "Dirty Love"

# Define the range of pages to scrape
start_page = 9
end_page = 11  # Change this to the last page you want to scrape

# Loop through the pages
for page_num in range(start_page, end_page + 1):
    url = base_url.format(page_num)
    print("\n", url, sep="")

    # Send an HTTP GET request to the URL
    response = requests.get(url)

    # Check if the request was successful
    if response.status_code == 200:
        # Parse the HTML content of the page
        soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')

        # Search for the desired string in the HTML
        print(f"String: {search_string}")
        if not search_string in soup.get_text():
            print("not ", end="")
        print(f"found on page {page_num}")
    else:
        print(f"Failed to retrieve page")