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Scraping “People Also Ask” Using Selenium

A lot of people ask me to write a script to scrape google “people also ask”. This script fetches the data and saves it in a CSV file.

#Project: scraping "people also ask" question/answer and save in csv format
#Code by Sunil
#14-July

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException  
import csv
import time

# fetch all java related questions and answers
search = "Java"

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_experimental_option('excludeSwitches', ['enable-logging'])
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)

driver.get('https://www.google.com')
driver.implicitly_wait(10)
driver.find_element(By.NAME,"q").send_keys(search + Keys.ENTER)

limit = 20 # no of questions to be fetched
counter = 1
qno=1
header = ["question","answer"]
data = []
while counter <= limit:
    qq=aa=""
    try:
        question = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'div[jsname="N760b"] > div:nth-child(' + str(counter) + ')')
        qq=question.text
        if search not in qq:  # this is just to ignore UN RELATED questions
            counter+=1        # the keyword must be in questions 
            continue
    except NoSuchElementException:
        counter +=1
        continue
    print (qno, question.text) 
    #driver.implicitly_wait(60) # wait after each click
    # wait for 1 seconds
    time.sleep(1)
    question.click()
     
    try:
        answer = question.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'div:nth-child(2) > div > div > div:nth-child(2) > div:nth-child(1) > div > div:nth-child(1) > div > div > span:nth-child(1) > span')
    except NoSuchElementException:
        answer = ""
    if answer == '':
        print ('different format')
        aa=""
    else:
        print (answer.text)
        aa = answer.text
    print ('-------------------------------------')
    counter += 1
    qno +=1
    row = [qq, aa]
    data.append(row)
with open('q.csv', 'w', newline='', encoding='utf-8') as file:
    writer = csv.writer(file)
    writer.writerow(header)
    writer.writerows(data)