/Web-Scraper-GUI

Web Scraper GUI is a Python program with a graphical user interface (GUI) that enables users to easily scrape information from a specified URL and save the extracted content to a Word document (DOCX).

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Web Scraper GUI

Web Scraper GUI is a Python program that allows users to scrape information from a specified URL and save the extracted content to a Word document (DOCX). The program uses a simple graphical user interface (GUI) built with the tkinter library for user interaction.

Features

  • Input a URL through the GUI.
  • Fetch HTML content from the provided URL.
  • Extract information (title and paragraphs) from the HTML content.
  • Save the extracted information to a Word document (DOCX).

Requirements

  • Python 3.x
  • Requests library: pip install requests
  • BeautifulSoup library: pip install beautifulsoup4
  • python-docx library: pip install python-docx
  • tkinter library (usually included with Python)

How to Use

  1. Clone or download the repository to your local machine.

  2. Install the required libraries:

    pip install requests beautifulsoup4 python-docx

  3. Run the program:

    python web_scraper_gui.py

  4. Enter the URL in the provided entry field and click the "Scrape" button.

  5. The extracted information will be saved to a file named Output.docx in the same directory.

Contributing

If you find any issues or have suggestions for improvements, feel free to open an issue or create a pull request. Contributions are welcome!