Creating a Python Executable for Daily Inspirational Quotes Using EasyGUI and PyInstaller

The article introduces a small Python program that fetches a random inspirational or love quote from a Chinese website, shows it in a pop‑up window via the easygui library, and explains how to turn the script into a standalone executable.

Web scraping step : The script uses requests to download the page https://www.duanwenxue.com/yulu/aiqingxuanyan/ , parses it with BeautifulSoup , extracts all anchor tags inside the div.list-short-article element, and selects one quote at random.

<code>import requests
import easygui
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import random

def getwords():
    texts = []
    url = 'https://www.duanwenxue.com/yulu/aiqingxuanyan/'
    response = requests.get(url)
    texts.append(response.text)
    articles = []
    for text in texts:
        soup = BeautifulSoup(text, 'lxml')
        arttis = soup.find('div', class_='list-short-article').find_all('a', {'target': "_blank"})
        articles.extend([arttis[i].text.strip() for i in range(len(arttis))])
    todaywords = articles[random.randint(0, len(articles)-1)]
    return todaywords

if __name__ == '__main__':
    path = 'biaobai.jpg'
    easygui.msgbox(getwords(), "每日情话或每日励志", image=path)
</code>

Packaging into an executable : After installing PyInstaller with pip install pyinstaller , run the command in the project directory to generate a dist folder containing the executable. The article notes that missing library errors may appear; reinstall the problematic library with pip and rebuild.

If the build succeeds, place any desired image (e.g., biaobai.jpg ) alongside the executable, and the program will display a random quote each time it runs.

The guide also provides screenshots of the source code, the web‑page inspection process, and the final executable folder, and invites readers to view the original article for more details.