Stackoverflow Top Questions & Answers―Crawler

A script get the highest voted questions from StackOverflow.com and print its best anwser url.

Table of Contents

• General info
• Technologies
• Requirement
• Setup
• Demo

General info

This tool is a part of project I learnt about crawler.

Technologies

Project is created with:

• Python version: 3.8.10
• Stack Exchange API version: 2.3

Learn more about latest API version.

Requirement

• stackoverflow API key store in config file (i.e. myconfig.cfg) located in the same directory of this script.

As document said, an API key is NOT compulsory to retrieve question/answer, but for more API quota in this case.

If an application does have an access_token, then the application is on a distinct user/app pair daily quota (default size of 10,000).

Register an API key.

Setup

To run this project, spin up terminal locally:

$ cd ../stackoverflow-top-qa
$ python3 stackoverflow.py [N] [LABEL]

Demo

$ python3 stackoverflow.py 4 python

Result

1. What does the "yield" keyword do?
   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/231767/what-does-the-yield-keyword-do#231855
2. What does if name == "main": do?
   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/419163/what-does-if-name-main-do#419185
3. Does Python have a ternary conditional operator?
   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/394809/does-python-have-a-ternary-conditional-operator#394814
4. What are metaclasses in Python?
   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/100003/what-are-metaclasses-in-python#6581949