How to use ThreadPoolExecutor with an Excel file as input and scrape date from a website

Question

I'm trying to input zip codes taken from a predefined excel file into a website to fetch populated results and write them back to the same file in a new column. To be specific, each zip code should produce a household number, which is what I want to record and enter in the final column of the excel file.

With my current attempt, the script is doing fine. What I wish to do now is apply concurrent.futures library within the script to make it faster.

import concurrent.futures as futures
from openpyxl import load_workbook
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

headers = {
    'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
    'accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9',
    'accept-encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br',
    'accept-language': 'en-US,en;q=0.9,bn;q=0.8',
    'referer': 'https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/60634/'
}

link = 'https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/{}/'

def get_content(company,url):
    res = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(res.text,"lxml")
    household = int(soup.select_one("th:-soup-contains('Occupied Housing Units') + td").get_text(strip=True).replace(",",""))
    company.offset(0,3).value = household
    return household

if __name__ == '__main__':
    wb = load_workbook('input.xlsx')
    ws = wb['result']
    for company in ws['B']:
        if company.value == "Zip Code": continue
        if not company.value: break
        content_url = link.format(company.value)
        print(get_content(company,content_url))
    wb.save('input.xlsx')


# if __name__ == "__main__":
#     wb = load_workbook('input.xlsx')
#     ws = wb['result']
#     with futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=6) as executor:
#         future_to_url = {
#             executor.submit(get_content, company, link.format(company.value)): company for company in ws['B']
#         }
#         futures.as_completed(future_to_url)

#     wb.save('input.xlsx')

Here is the excel file for your consideration and this is how it looks like.

Answer 1

How about trying this?

Note: I've refactored your code for clarity and simplicity.

import concurrent.futures as futures

import pandas as pd
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

headers = {
    'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
    'accept-encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br',
    'accept-language': 'en-US,en;q=0.9,bn;q=0.8',
    'referer': 'https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/60634/'
}


def get_content(url: str) -> int:
    return int(
        BeautifulSoup(session.get(url, headers=headers).text, "lxml")
        .select_one("th:-soup-contains('Occupied Housing Units') + td")
        .get_text(strip=True)
        .replace(",", "")
    )


if __name__ == '__main__':
    df = pd.read_excel('input.xlsx')
    with requests.Session() as session:
        with futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=6) as executor:
            future_to_url = {
                executor.submit(
                    get_content,
                    f'https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/{zip_code}/'
                ): zip_code for zip_code in df['Zip Code']
            }
            futures.as_completed(future_to_url)
    for future in future_to_url:
        df.loc[df['Zip Code'] == future_to_url[future], 'Total households'] = future.result()
    print(df.to_markdown(index=False))
    df.to_excel('output.xlsx', index=False)

This should print:

| State   |   Zip Code |   High Speed |   100M |   Total households |
|:--------|-----------:|-------------:|-------:|-------------------:|
| IL      |      60618 |        32198 |   3038 |              35407 |
| IL      |      60647 |        29868 |   3526 |              34330 |
| IL      |      60641 |        18340 |   1811 |              24770 |
| IL      |      60634 |        17743 |   1544 |              25712 |
| IL      |      60402 |        14554 |   1533 |              21338 |
| CA      |      95969 |        12074 |      0 |              12475 |
| NC      |      28269 |        13071 |    209 |              27076 |
| TX      |      78245 |        10094 |    326 |              17691 |
| IL      |      60622 |        15794 |   6519 |              24124 |
| IL      |      60630 |        11730 |   1852 |              20497 |
| CA      |      90280 |        12637 |     92 |              23278 |
| CA      |      90026 |         9878 |    191 |              24956 |
| TX      |      78207 |         9140 |     14 |              15851 |
| CA      |      94112 |        11608 |   2129 |              21975 |
| TX      |      78228 |         8957 |    147 |              18890 |
| CA      |      90201 |         7450 |     11 |              24104 |
| FL      |      32828 |         7586 |    338 |              20057 |
| GA      |      30043 |         9045 |    189 |              25997 |
| GA      |      30349 |        10507 |    656 |              25422 |
| FL      |      33027 |         7457 |     54 |              21028 |

And you should also get an Excel file output.xlsx with the same data as above.