retrieve links from web page using python and BeautifulSoup [closed]

Answer 1

There can be many duplicate links together with both external and internal links. To differentiate between the two and just get unique links using sets:

# Python 3.
import urllib    
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = "http://www.espncricinfo.com/"
resp = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
# Get server encoding per recommendation of Martijn Pieters.
soup = BeautifulSoup(resp, from_encoding=resp.info().get_param('charset'))  
external_links = set()
internal_links = set()
for line in soup.find_all('a'):
    link = line.get('href')
    if not link:
        continue
    if link.startswith('http'):
        external_links.add(link)
    else:
        internal_links.add(link)

# Depending on usage, full internal links may be preferred.
full_internal_links = {
    urllib.parse.urljoin(url, internal_link) 
    for internal_link in internal_links
}

# Print all unique external and full internal links.
for link in external_links.union(full_internal_links):
    print(link)