diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d8f0350
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+.mypy_cache
+.venv
+.vscode
+scraped_quotes.csv
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/basic_scrape.py b/basic_scrape.py
index 6a4afcd..f847122 100644
--- a/basic_scrape.py
+++ b/basic_scrape.py
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@
 
 #FIND ALL THE ITEMS IN THE PAGE WITH A CLASS ATTRIBUTE OF 'TEXT'
 #AND STORE THE LIST AS A VARIABLE
-quotes = soup.findAll('span', attrs={'class':'text'})
+quotes = soup.find_all('span', attrs={'class': 'text'})
 
 #FIND ALL THE ITEMS IN THE PAGE WITH A CLASS ATTRIBUTE OF 'AUTHOR'
 #AND STORE THE LIST AS A VARIABLE
-authors = soup.findAll('small', attrs={"class":"author"})
+authors = soup.find_all('small', attrs={"class": "author"})
 
 #LOOP THROUGH BOTH LISTS USING THE 'ZIP' FUNCTION
 #AND PRINT AND FORMAT THE RESULTS
diff --git a/basic_scrape_csv_export.py b/basic_scrape_csv_export.py
index d036f15..613c913 100644
--- a/basic_scrape_csv_export.py
+++ b/basic_scrape_csv_export.py
@@ -1,35 +1,37 @@
-#IMPORT LIBRARIES
+# IMPORT CSV LIBRARY
+import csv
+
+# IMPORT LIBRARIES
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 import requests
 
-#IMPORT CSV LIBRARY
-import csv
+# OPEN A NEW CSV FILE. IT CAN BE CALLED ANYTHING
+with open("scraped_quotes.csv", "w", encoding="utf-8") as file:
+
+    # CREATE A VARIABLE FOR WRITING TO THE CSV
+    writer = csv.writer(file)
+
+    # CREATE THE HEADER ROW OF THE CSV
+    writer.writerow(["Quote", "Author"])
+
+    # REQUEST WEBPAGE AND STORE IT AS A VARIABLE
+    page_to_scrape = requests.get("https://quotes.toscrape.com", timeout=30)
+
+    # USE BEAUTIFULSOUP TO PARSE THE HTML AND STORE IT AS A VARIABLE
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(page_to_scrape.text, "html.parser")
+
+    # FIND ALL THE ITEMS IN THE PAGE WITH A CLASS ATTRIBUTE OF 'TEXT'
+    # AND STORE THE LIST AS A VARIABLE
+    quotes = soup.find_all("span", attrs={"class": "text"})
+
+    # FIND ALL THE ITEMS IN THE PAGE WITH A CLASS ATTRIBUTE OF 'AUTHOR'
+    # AND STORE THE LIST AS A VARIABLE
+    authors = soup.find_all("small", attrs={"class": "author"})
+
+    # LOOP THROUGH BOTH LISTS USING THE 'ZIP' FUNCTION
+    # AND PRINT AND FORMAT THE RESULTS
+    for quote, author in zip(quotes, authors):
+        print(quote.text + "-" + author.text)
 
-#OPEN A NEW CSV FILE. IT CAN BE CALLED ANYTHING
-file = open('scraped_quotes.csv', 'w')
-#CREATE A VARIABLE FOR WRITING TO THE CSV
-writer = csv.writer(file)
-
-#CREATE THE HEADER ROW OF THE CSV
-writer.writerow(['Quote', 'Author'])
-
-#REQUEST WEBPAGE AND STORE IT AS A VARIABLE
-page_to_scrape = requests.get("http://quotes.toscrape.com")
-#USE BEAUTIFULSOUP TO PARSE THE HTML AND STORE IT AS A VARIABLE
-soup = BeautifulSoup(page_to_scrape.text, 'html.parser')
-#FIND ALL THE ITEMS IN THE PAGE WITH A CLASS ATTRIBUTE OF 'TEXT'
-#AND STORE THE LIST AS A VARIABLE
-quotes = soup.findAll('span', attrs={'class':'text'})
-
-#FIND ALL THE ITEMS IN THE PAGE WITH A CLASS ATTRIBUTE OF 'AUTHOR'
-#AND STORE THE LIST AS A VARIABLE
-authors = soup.findAll('small', attrs={"class":"author"})
-
-#LOOP THROUGH BOTH LISTS USING THE 'ZIP' FUNCTION
-#AND PRINT AND FORMAT THE RESULTS
-for quote, author in zip(quotes, authors):
-    print(quote.text + "-" + author.text)
-    #WRITE EACH ITEM AS A NEW ROW IN THE CSV
-    writer.writerow([quote.text, author.text])
-#CLOSE THE CSV FILE
-file.close()
+        # WRITE EACH ITEM AS A NEW ROW IN THE CSV
+        writer.writerow([quote.text, author.text])