Code challenge solution (Python)

[jbkela]

Python solution for the Van Gogh paintings carousel challenge.

Pulls the artworks carousel (name, the date as extensions, the Google link and
the thumbnail) out of the saved results page into {"artworks": [...]}. It only
reads the local HTML, no extra requests, and the output matches the provided
expected-array.json exactly, base64 thumbnails and all.

I did it in Python (BeautifulSoup + pytest) as that's my strongest language. A
few notes:

• Items are found by their structure (a /search?...stick= link with an
  inside), not the class names, since Google changes those between pages.
• Thumbnails come from data-src, or the base64 in the _setImagesSrc scripts (the
  padding is written as \x3d in the script so it has to be un-escaped), or null
  if it isn't in the page.
• Tested against the given page plus real saved pages for Picasso (US), Monet
  (French) and a Power cast grid (UK), so it covers a different widget and a
  different locale, with a few small hand-written pages for the edge cases.

More detail in the README.