imageflipmemes.py

import random
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

# The imageflip website is used to scrape the urls of memes.
# A random url is returned


def memes():
    page_no = 1
    tenpages = []
    for i in range(10):
        url = "https://imgflip.com/tag/memes?page=" + str(page_no)
        r = requests.get(url)
        soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, "html.parser")
        for d in (soup.find('div', attrs={"id": "page", "class": "base clearfix"}).find('div', attrs={"id": "base-left"}).find_all("div", attrs={"class": "base-unit clearfix"})):
            p = (d.find("div", attrs={
                 "class": "base-img-wrap-wrap"}).find('img'))
            try:
                tenpages.append("https:" + str(p['src']))
            except:
                pass
        page_no += 1
    return(random.choice(tenpages))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(memes())