Quote Guessing Game using Web Scraping in Python (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 23 Jul, 2025

Prerequisite: BeautifulSoup Installation

In this article, we will scrape a quote and details of the author from this site http//quotes.toscrape.com using python framework called BeautifulSoup and develop a guessing game using different data structures and algorithm.

The user will be given 4 chances to guess the author of a famous quote, In every chance the user will be provided with a hint which can be the author's birth date, first name's first letter, second name's first letter, etc. On successfully guessing the author, a message is printed and if the user fails to guess the answer even after all the 4 chances then again a message is printed along with the answer.

Approach

• Import module
  • requests help us grab the page, when the response is received it is stored in the form of a string
  • bs4 library is used to create beasutifulSoup object.
  • csv library helps reading and writing CSV files using python
  • sleep function from time module helps add delay in the execution of the program.
  • choice function from random module returns a random element.
• Create a list to store values scraped
• Scrape the details from this link:http//quotes.toscrape.com
• Extract data
• Game logic
  • Return random items from the dictionary created
  • Set number of guesses
  • Write message for success and failure
  • Keep giving hints until either number of chances reach zero or the user gets it right

Program:

Python3 `

import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from csv import writer from time import sleep from random import choice

list to store scraped data

all_quotes = []

this part of the url is constant

base_url = "http://quotes.toscrape.com/"

this part of the url will keep changing

url = "/page/1"

while url:

# concatenating both urls
# making request
res = requests.get(f"{base_url}{url}")
print(f"Now Scraping{base_url}{url}")
soup = BeautifulSoup(res.text, "html.parser")

# extracting all elements
quotes = soup.find_all(class_="quote")

for quote in quotes:
    all_quotes.append({
        "text": quote.find(class_="text").get_text(),
        "author": quote.find(class_="author").get_text(),
        "bio-link": quote.find("a")["href"]
    })
next_btn = soup.find(_class="next")
url = next_btn.find("a")["href"] if next_btn else None
sleep(2)

quote = choice(all_quotes) remaining_guesses = 4 print("Here's a quote: ") print(quote["text"])

guess = '' while guess.lower() != quote["author"].lower() and remaining_guesses > 0: guess = input( f"Who said this quote? Guesses remaining {remaining_guesses}")

if guess == quote["author"]:
    print("CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU GOT IT RIGHT")
    break
remaining_guesses -= 1

if remaining_guesses == 3:
    res = requests.get(f"{base_url}{quote['bio-link']}")
    soup = BeautifulSoup(res.text, "html.parser")
    birth_date = soup.find(class_="author-born-date").get_text()
    birth_place = soup.find(class_="author-born-location").get_text()
    print(
        f"Here's a hint: The author was born on {birth_date}{birth_place}")

elif remaining_guesses == 2:
    print(
        f"Here's a hint: The author's first name starts with: {quote['author'][0]}")

elif remaining_guesses == 1:
    last_initial = quote["author"].split(" ")[1][0]
    print(
        f"Here's a hint: The author's last name starts with: {last_initial}")

else:
    print(
        f"Sorry, you ran out of guesses. The answer was {quote['author']}")

`

Output:

Time Complexity:
The time complexity of this code is O(N) because the while loop is iterating over quotes list N times.

Space Complexity:
The space complexity of this code is O(N) because the all_quotes list is storing N number of elements.