How to scrape certain amount of characters from line python

Question

So I am quite new to python and coding in general and I am learning python so I can automate tasks. I want to scrape data into a csv and then later use this csv to upload these products to a website. However, from the website that I am scraping. It has very long titles and descriptions. But the website I am uploading to has a character limit.

So what is the best way to approach this with python?

• Is there a way I can limit the characters that are scraped? so when scraping the data only the first 45 characters are copied?

• Or can I scrape like normal but then format the csv file to keep the first x amount of characters and how could I do this?

• Lastly, or can I limit the amount of characters being pasted when filling the data into the website I am uploading to?

Please kindly share if any of these are possible and what would be the fasted and easiest way to perform this?

looking forward to any help!

Answer 1

I would suggest cutting the too long strings.
I mean after scraping the data, in case your string is too long - cut out the string tail.
For example if your scraped string is named data and you need to limit its length to 50 you can do the following:

data = data[:50]