A tool to get question links from stackexchange website that contains certain words in its description.
You first need to install the python 2.7 to get all the package needed to use this tool:
- Linux/Unix:
sudo apt install python2.7 python-pip - Windows: install manually the package from the python site, and follow installation instructions, make sure to put the path in the environnement when installing dependencies.
- Mac: you must install Homebrew and install python like so:
brew install python, I suggest you follow the instruction from this site
Once this is done you can install those package with pip:
- BeautifulSoup:
pip install beautifulsoup4 - request:
pip install requests - bs4:
pip install bs4
to use the tool you must:
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linux/mac: use chmod to give an execution permission to the file like so:
chmod +x research_question.pyAnd then execute it like so:./research_questions.py -
Windows execute it with python.exe like so:
python.exe .\research_questions.py
If it works you are going to have a help message giving you instruction in what to put in parameteres.
the tool is used like so:
./research_question.py [tab] [forum] [words...]
- tab is the section you want from the site it can be the new, hot, real-time... section.
- forum is the site you want to research it can be stackexchange, stackoverflow, superuser...
- words are the words you want to find in the question description it can be a list of words. The fewer the words the more question you will have and vice versa.
This tool is in developement so it has a few bugs, any help/pull request is welcome.