from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup
import json

base_url = "https://archive.org/details/librivoxaudio?&sort=titleSorter"

data = []
n = 5
for i in range(1, n+1):
   response = urlopen(base_url + "&page=" + str(i))
   page_html = response.read()
   response.close()

   #html parsing
   page_soup = soup(page_html, "html.parser")

   #grabs info for each book
   containers = page_soup.findAll("div",{"class":"item-ttl"})
   authors = page_soup.findAll("span",{"class":"byv"})

   for container in containers:
     item = {}
     item['type'] = "Public Domain Audiobook"
     item['title'] = container.text.lstrip().strip()
     for author in authors:
         item['author'] = author.text
     item['link'] = "https://archive.org/" + container.a["href"]
     item['source'] = "LibriVox"
     item['base_url'] = "https://librivox.org/"
     data.append(item) # add the item to the list

     with open("./json/librivoxTest.json", "w") as writeJSON:
       json.dump(data, writeJSON, ensure_ascii=False)

{
"type": "Public Domain Audiobook",
"title": "A Book of Old English Ballads",
"author": "Charles Whibley",
"link": "https://archive.org//details/book_old_english_ballads_1007_librivox",
"source": "LibriVox",
"base_url": "https://librivox.org/"
}, {
"type": "Public Domain Audiobook",
"title": "A Book of Scoundrels",
"author": "Charles Whibley",
"link": "https://archive.org//details/scoundrels_1712_librivox",
"source": "LibriVox",
"base_url": "https://librivox.org/"
}