Scrape Bing Related Questions using Python

Contents: intro, imports, what will be scraped, process, code, links, outro.

Intro

This blog post is a continuation of Bing's web scraping series. Here will be shown how to scrape Related Questions from Bing search results using Python.

Imports

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import lxml
from serpapi import GoogleSearch
import os # for creating environment variable

What will be scraped

Process

Everything below was done using SelectorGadget Chrome extension.

Selecting container CSS selector with needed data

Selecting question CSS selector

Selecting snippet CSS selector

Selecting title CSS selector

Selecting title URL CSS selector

Selecting displayed URL CSS selector

Code

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests, lxml

headers = {
    "User-Agent":
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.19582"
}

html = requests.get('https://www.bing.com/search?q=lion king&hl=en', headers=headers)
soup = BeautifulSoup(html.content, 'lxml')

for related_question in soup.select('#relatedQnAListDisplay .df_topAlAs'):
    question = related_question.select_one('.b_1linetrunc').text
    snippet = related_question.select_one('.rwrl_padref').text
    title = related_question.select_one('#relatedQnAListDisplay .b_algo p').text
    link = related_question.select_one('#relatedQnAListDisplay .b_algo a')['href']
    displayed_link = related_question.select_one('#relatedQnAListDisplay cite').text
    print(f'{question}\n{snippet}\n{title}\n{link}\n{displayed_link}\n')

# part of the output:
'''
What kind of game is The Lion King?
Jump on top of giraffe’s head and eat bugs in this awesome classic platformer game. The Lion King is a classic 1994 platformer video game based on the multi-award winning animated film of the same name. The game takes place after the death of Simba’s father where Simba was told a lie and forced to hide.
The Lion King - Play Game Online - ArcadeSpot.com
https://arcadespot.com/game/the-lion-king/
arcadespot.com/game/the-lion-king/
'''

Using Bing Related Questions API

SerpApi is a paid API with a free trial of 5,000 searches.

from serpapi import GoogleSearch

params = {
    "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "engine": "bing",
    "q": "lion king"
}

search = GoogleSearch(params)
results = search.get_dict()

for result in results['related_questions']:
    question = result['question']
    snippet = result['snippet']
    title = result['title']
    link = result['link']
    displayed_link = result['displayed_link']
    print(f'{question}\n{title}\n{link}\n{displayed_link}\n{snippet}\n')

# part of the output:
'''
Is the Lion King a circle of life?
Disney THE LION KING | Award-Winning Best Musical
https://www.lionking.com/
www.lionking.com/
Circle of Life in 360 - Experience THE LION KING like never before - WATCH IT NOW Quite Simply, Stunning. -TimeOut New York A Deeply Felt Celebration of Life.
'''

Links

Code in the online IDE • Bing Related Questions API

Outro

If you have any questions or something isn't working correctly or you want to write something else, feel free to drop a comment in the comment section or via Twitter at @serp_api.

Yours,
Dimitry, and the rest of SerpApi Team.

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