Species status | species_status.py | added files

Author: jack1q

Species-Status/README.md

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+# Species Status
+Simple python script that prompts user to enter a species name and returns the species' IUCN category 
+(extinct, extinct in the wild, critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable, near threatened, least concern) using beautifulsoup. Data is scraped from Wikipedia.

Species-Status/species_status.py

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+# Given a species name, this script returns the IUCN category/status of the species
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+import requests
+
+def get_soup():
+    species_name = input('Enter the name of the species: ')
+    result = requests.get(f'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{species_name}')
+    src = result.content
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(src, 'lxml')
+    return soup
+
+def get_status():
+    soup = get_soup()
+    try:
+        species_name = soup.select_one('.mw-redirect[href="/wiki/Least_Concern"]').text
+    except AttributeError:
+        try:
+            species_name = soup.select_one('a[href="/wiki/Vulnerable_species"]').text
+        except  AttributeError:
+            try:
+                species_name = soup.select_one('.mw-redirect[href="/wiki/Near_Threatened"]').text
+            except  AttributeError:
+                try:
+                    species_name = soup.select_one('a[href="/wiki/Endangered_species"]').text
+                except  AttributeError:
+                    try:
+                        species_name = soup.select_one('.mw-redirect[href="/wiki/Critically_endangered_species"]').text
+                    except  AttributeError:
+                        try:
+                            species_name = soup.select_one('.mw-redirect[href="/wiki/Extinct_in_the_Wild"]').text
+                        except  AttributeError:
+                            try:
+                                species_name = soup.select_one('a[href="/wiki/Extinction"]').text
+                            except  AttributeError:
+                                species_name = 'Could not find status... Check spelling or perhaps try the scientific name'
+    return species_name
+print(f'Status:\n> {get_status()}')