review-automation-server/yelp/scrapper.py

import requests
import random
from time import sleep
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bSoup

from .utils import date_string2timezone

pages_start = [i*20 for i in range(10)]

PARAMETER = '?sort_by=date_desc&start='


headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0',
    'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
    'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.5',
    'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br',
    'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests': '1',
    'Connection': 'keep-alive'
}


def scrape_reviews(location_url, max_date, n_pages):
    start_params = pages_start[:n_pages]
    yelp_reviews = []

    for start in start_params:
        url = location_url + PARAMETER + str(start)
        response = requests.get(url, headers=headers).text

        # pause for 60-120 to make request more human-like.
        sleep(random.randint(60, 120))
        html_soup = bSoup(response, 'html.parser')

        review_items = html_soup.findAll('li', class_='lemon--li__373c0__1r9wz margin-b3__373c0__q1DuY padding-b3__373c0__342DA border--bottom__373c0__3qNtD border-color--default__373c0__3-ifU')

        # A single review content
        if not review_items:
            return None
        for review_content in review_items:
            profile = review_content.find('a', class_='lemon--a__373c0__IEZFH link__373c0__1G70M link-color--inherit__373c0__3dzpk link-size--inherit__373c0__1VFlE')
            name = profile.getText()
            profile_link = profile.get('href')
            rating_div = review_content.find('span', class_='lemon--span__373c0__3997G display--inline__373c0__3JqBP border-color--default__373c0__3-ifU')
            rating = int(rating_div.div.get('aria-label').split()[0])
            date_posted = review_content.find('span', class_='lemon--span__373c0__3997G text__373c0__2Kxyz text-color--mid__373c0__jCeOG text-align--left__373c0__2XGa-').text
            date = date_string2timezone(date_posted)
            review_text = review_content.find('span', class_='lemon--span__373c0__3997G raw__373c0__3rKqk').text

            if date > max_date:
                review = {
                    'name': name,
                    'profile': profile_link,
                    'rating': rating,
                    'date_posted': date,
                    'comment': review_text,
                }
                yelp_reviews.append(review)
    return yelp_reviews