Who said it? : A quote guessing game written in Python that scrapes a quote database to a local csv file

who_said_it.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from csv import reader, writer
from halo import Halo
from os import name, remove, system
from pyfiglet import figlet_format
from random import choice
from termcolor import colored
from time import sleep
import requests

url = "http://quotes.toscrape.com"
guesses_allowed = 4


def clear_screen():
    if name == "posix":
        system("clear")
    else:
        system("cls")


def end_game():
    print_ascii_art("GOODBYE", "blue")
    sleep(2)
    clear_screen()
    quit()


def get_bio(author):
    spinner = Halo(text=colored("Scraping hints...", color="white"),
                   spinner="dots", color="yellow")
    spinner.start()
    res = requests.get(url+author)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(res.text, "html.parser")
    birthdate = soup.find(class_="author-born-date").get_text()
    location = soup.find(class_="author-born-location").get_text()
    spinner.succeed()
    return "This person was born on {} {}".format(birthdate, location)


def yes_or_no(answer):
    if answer == "y":
        play_game()
    elif answer == "n":
        end_game()
    else:
        answer = input("Please enter y or n: ")
        yes_or_no(answer)


def play_game():
    clear_screen()
    guesses_remaining = guesses_allowed
    with open("scraped_quotes.csv") as file:
        quotes = list(reader(file))
    current_quote = choice(quotes)
    author = current_quote[0]
    text = current_quote[1]
    author_bio_url = current_quote[2]

    print(colored("Here's a quote:", color="yellow"))
    print(colored("\n{}".format(text), color="magenta"))
    answer = input(colored("\nWho said it? ", color="yellow"))
    for guess in range(guesses_allowed):
        if answer == author:
            respond_to_right_answer()
        else:
            guesses_remaining -= 1
            answer = respond_to_wrong_answer(
                author, guesses_remaining, author_bio_url)


def print_ascii_art(message, color):
    ascii_art = figlet_format(message)
    colored_ascii = colored(ascii_art, color=color)
    print(colored_ascii)


def respond_to_right_answer():
    print_ascii_art("WINNER!", "green")
    play_again = input(colored(
        "OMG, you're a flippin' genius! Wanna play again? (y/n): ", color="yellow"))
    yes_or_no(play_again)


def respond_to_wrong_answer(author, guesses_remaining, author_bio_url):
    if guesses_remaining == 3:
        print(colored("That is incorrect.", color="red"))
        hint = get_bio(author_bio_url)
        print(colored("Here's a hint:", color="yellow"))
        print(colored(hint, color="cyan"))
        answer = input(colored(
            "You have {} guesses left. Give it another shot: ".format(guesses_remaining), color="yellow"))
        return answer
    elif guesses_remaining == 2:
        first_initial = author[0]
        print(colored("That is incorrect.", color="red"))
        print(colored("Here's another hint:", color="yellow"))
        print(colored("This person's first name begins with {}".format(
            first_initial), color="cyan"))
        answer = input(colored(
            "You have {} guesses left. There is no try, only do!: ".format(guesses_remaining), color="yellow"))
        return answer
    elif guesses_remaining == 1:
        last_initial = author.split(" ")[-1][0]
        print(colored("That is incorrect.", color="red"))
        print(colored("Here's a final hint:", color="yellow"))
        print(colored("This person's last name begins with {}".format(
            last_initial), color="cyan"))
        answer = input(colored(
            "You have {} guess left. Last chance (no pressure at all!): ".format(guesses_remaining), color="red"))
        return answer
    else:
        print(colored(
            "You are all out of guesses.  The correct answer was {}".format(author), color="cyan"))
        play_again = input(colored(
            "Wanna play again? (y/n): ", color="yellow"))
        yes_or_no(play_again)


spinner = Halo(text=colored("Scraping quotes...", color="white"),
               spinner="dots", color="yellow")
spinner.start()


def scrape_site(url, page):
    res = requests.get(url+page)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(res.text, "html.parser")
    quotes = soup.find_all(class_="quote")
    is_next_page = soup.find("li", class_="next")
    with open("scraped_quotes.csv", "w") as file:
        csv_writer = writer(file)

        for quote in quotes:
            text = quote.find(class_="text").get_text()
            author = quote.find(class_="author").get_text()
            author_url = quote.find("a")["href"]
            csv_writer.writerow([author, text, author_url])

    if is_next_page:
        next_page_url = soup.find("li", class_="next").find("a")["href"]
        scrape_site(url, next_page_url)
    else:
        spinner.succeed(
            colored("Scraping Complete.  Let's do this!", color="white"))
        sleep(2)
        print("\n")


clear_screen()
print_ascii_art("Who said it ?".upper(), "yellow")
remove("scraped_quotes.csv")
scrape_site(url, "")
play_game()

Changing "a" to "w" prevents error when starting off fresh with no existing scraped_quotes.csv file.