I am trying to parse the first page of google search results. Specifically, the Title and the small Summary that is provided. Here is what I have so far: The part I am stuck on now is going down the HTML path to parse the specific data that I want. Everything I have tried so far has just thrown an
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Beautiful Soup Nested Tag Search
I am trying to write a python program that will count the words on a web page. I use Beautiful Soup 4 to scrape the page but I have difficulties accessing nested HTML tags (for example: <p class=”hello”> inside <div>). Every time I try finding such tag using page.findAll() (page is Bea…
Exact website links from google through BeautifulSoup
I want to search google using BeautifulSoup and open the first link. But when I opened the link it shows error. The reason i think is that because google is not providing exact link of website, it has added several parameters in url. How to get exact url? When i tried to use cite tag it worked but for big
BeautifulSoup find_all limited to 50 results?
I’m trying to get the results from a page using BeautifulSoup: I read this previous solution: Beautiful Soup findAll doesn’t find them all and I tried html.parser, lxml and html5lib, but none of them return more than 50 results. Any suggestions? Answer Try using css-selector query.
Accessing the dataLayer (JS variable) when scraping with python
I’m using beautiful soup to scrape a webpages. I want to access the dataLayer (a javascript variable) that is present on this webpage? How can I retrieve it using python? Answer You can parse it from the source with the help of re and json.loads to find the correct script tag that contains the json: Run…
Beautiful Soup if Class “Contains” or Regex?
If my class names are constantly different say for example: Normally I could do: There are way too many class names to work with here so a bunch of these are out. I know Python doesn’t have a “.contains” I would normally use but it does have an “in”. Though I haven’t been a…
BeautifulSoup – find table with specified class on Wikipedia page
I am trying to find a table in a Wikipedia page using BeautifulSoup and for some reason I don’t get the table. Can anyone tell why I don’t get the table? my code: prints: None Answer You shouldn’t use jquery-tablesorter to select against in the response you get from requests because it is dy…
BeautifulSoup – search by text inside a tag
Observe the following problem: For some reason, BeautifulSoup will not match the text, when the <i> tag is there as well. Finding the tag and showing its text produces Right. According to the Docs, soup uses the match function of the regular expression, not the search function. So I need to provide the …
Replacing tags of one kind with tags of another in BeautifulSoup
I have a collection of HTML files. I wish to iterate over them, one by one, editing the mark-up of a particular class. The code I wish to edit is of the following form, using the following class names : This can occur multiple times in the same document, with different text instead of “Put me Elsewhere&…
UnicodeEncodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t encode characters
I’m trying to scrape a website, but it gives me an error. I’m using the following code: And I’m getting the following error: What can I do to fix this? Answer I fixed it by adding .encode(“utf-8”) to soup. That means that print(soup) becomes print(soup.encode(“utf-8”)…