How to find elements by class
You can refine your search to only find those divs with a given class using BS3:
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BeautifulSoup getting href
I have the following soup: From this I want to extract the href, “some_url” I can do it if I only have one tag, but here there are two tags. I can also get the text ‘next’ but that’s not what I want. Also, is there a good description of the API somewhere with examples. … Read more
UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\xa0′ in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)
You need to read the Python Unicode HOWTO. This error is the very first example. Basically, stop using str to convert from unicode to encoded text / bytes. Instead, properly use .encode() to encode the string: or work entirely in unicode.
Using BeautifulSoup to search HTML for string
The following line is looking for the exact NavigableString ‘Python’: Note that the following NavigableString is found: Note this behaviour: So your regexp is looking for an occurrence of ‘Python’ not the exact match to the NavigableString ‘Python’.
Difference between BeautifulSoup and Scrapy crawler?
Scrapy is a Web-spider or web scraper framework, You give Scrapy a root URL to start crawling, then you can specify constraints on how many (number of) URLs you want to crawl and fetch,etc. It is a complete framework for web-scraping or crawling. While BeautifulSoup is a parsing library which also does a pretty good job of fetching contents from URL … Read more
ImportError: No Module Named bs4 (BeautifulSoup)
Activate the virtualenv, and then install BeautifulSoup4: When you installed bs4 with easy_install, you installed it system-wide. So your system python can import it, but not your virtualenv python. If you do not need bs4 to be installed in your system python path, uninstall it and keep it in your virtualenv. For more information about virtualenvs, read this
Understand the Find() function in Beautiful Soup
soup.find(“div”, {“class”:”real number”})[‘data-value’] Here you are searching for a div element, but the span has the “real number” class in your example HTML data, try instead: Here we are also checking for presence of data-value attribute. To find elements having “real number” or “fake number” classes, you can make a CSS selector: To get the 69% value: Or, a CSS selector: Or, locating the h6 element … Read more
What is the meaning of [:] in python [duplicate]
[:] is the array slice syntax for every element in the array. This answer here goes more in depth of the general uses: Explain Python’s slice notation
How to remove \xa0 from string in Python?
I am currently using Beautiful Soup to parse an HTML file and calling get_text(), but it seems like I’m being left with a lot of \xa0 Unicode representing spaces. Is there an efficient way to remove all of them in Python 2.7, and change them into spaces? I guess the more generalized question would be, is … Read more
Where is BeautifulSoup4 hiding?
Try import bs4. It’s unfortunate there’s no correspondence between PyPI package name and import name. After that the class names are the same as before eg. soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(doc) will work. If that still doesn’t work, try pip install again and note the path to the package install. Then in your python console run import … Read more