I am new scraping with Python and BeautifulSoup4. Also, I do not have knowledge of HTML. To practice, I am trying to use it on Carrefour website to extract the price and price per kilogram of the product that I search for EAN code.
My code:
barcodes = ['5449000000996']
for barcode in barcodes:
url = 'https://www.carrefour.es/?q=' + barcode
html = requests.get(url).content
bs = BeautifulSoup(html, 'lxml')
searchingprice = bs.find_all('strong', {'class':'ebx-result-price__value'})
print(searchingprice)
searchingpricerperkg = bs.find_all('span', {'class':'ebx-result__quantity ebx-result-quantity'})
print(searchingpricerperkg)
But I do not get any result at all
Here is a screenshot of the HTML code:
What am I doing wrong? I tried with other website and it seems to work
The problem here is that you're scraping a page with Javascript-generated content. Basically, the page that you're grabbing with requests actually doesn't have the thing you're grabbing from it - it has a bunch of javascript. When your browser goes to the page, it runs the javascript, which generates the content - so the page you see in the rendered version in your browser is not the same thing returned from the actual page itself. The page contains instructions for your browser to write the page that you see.
If you're just practicing, you might want to simply try a different source to scrape from, but to scrape from this page, you'll need to look into other solutions that can handle javascript generated content:
Web-scraping JavaScript page with Python
Alternatively, the javascript generates content by requesting data from other sources. I don't speak spanish, so I'm not much help in figuring this part out, but you might be able to.
As an exercise, go ahead and have BS4 prettify and print out the page that it receives. You'll see that within that page there are requests to other locations to get the info you're asking for. You might be able to change your request to not go to the page where you view the info, but to the location that page gets it's data from.
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I have been trying to extract the html values from a page e.g. https://www.qwant.com/?q=cat&t=web but when I use jSoup or HtmlUnit I always get a basic page that doesn't compare to what is generated when I search via my normal browser.
My codes in general work on other websites but could someone explain to me why when I visit the above with code that I don't get the same results? I am trying to fetch all the url values on the page. Is it to do with javascript?
WebClient wb = new WebClient(BrowserVersion.FIREFOX_52);
wb.getPage(url);
wb.waitForBackgroundJavaScript(25000);
System.out.println(wb.getCurrentWindow().getEnclosedPage().getWebResponse().getContentAsString());
Some website just won't allow you to parse them headlessly (for obvious reasons). As I tried to curl the Qwant cat result page, the result was a blank page.
But you want to give a try at switching from Firefox to Chrome as your browser : It is not possible to detect and block Chrome headless
I'm trying to learn scraping from different webpages. I tried to scrape data from a page containing tabs as follows:
url = "https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/art/people/#par-bc_tabbed_content-tab-0"
page = requests.get(url)
content = page.content
tree = html.fromstring(page.content)
soup = BeautifulSoup(content,"html.parser")
p = soup.find_all('div',{"id":'e6bde0e9_358d_4966_8fde_be96e9dcad0b'})
print p
This returns empty result
Though inspecting the element displays the content but the source page doesn't display this data. Any pointers on how to extract the content.
this is because of javascript rendering, which means that the data you want doesn't come with the original request, but requests generated by the javascript of that response.
To check ALL the requests that were generated by the original request, you'll have to use something like developer tools in Chrome.
For this particular case the actual request you need is to this site, which will give you the information you need.
I am pretty new to r and selenium so hopefully i can express myself clearly about my question.
I want to scrape some data off a website (.aspx) and i need to type some chemical code to be able to pull out some information in the next page (using R-selenium to input and click element). So far i have been able to build a short code that will get me through the first step, i.e. pull out the correct page i wanted. But i had so much trouble in finding a good way to scrape the data (the chemical information in the table) off this website. Mainly because the website will not assign a new html address instead of give me the same aspx address for any chemical i search. I plan to overcome this and then build a loop so i can scrape more information automatically. Anyone has any good thoughts that how i should get the data off after click-element? I need the chemical information table in the second page.
Thanks heaps in advance!
Here i put my code that i wrote so far: the next step i need is to scrape the table out the next page!
library("RSelenium")
checkForServer()
startServer()
mybrowser <- remoteDriver()
mybrowser$open()
mybrowser$navigate("http://limitvalue.ifa.dguv.de/")
mybrowser$findElement(using = 'css selector', "#Tbox_cas")
wxbox <- mybrowser$findElement(using = 'css selector', "#Tbox_cas")
wxbox$sendKeysToElement(list("64-19-7"))
wxbutton <- mybrowser$findElement(using = 'css selector', "#Butsearch")
wxbutton$clickElement()
First of all, your tool choice is wrong.
Secondly, in your case
POST to the "permanent" url
302 redirect to a new url, which is http://limitvalue.ifa.dguv.de/WebForm_ueliste2.aspx in your case
GET the new url
Thirdly, what's the ultimate output you are after?
It really depends on how much data you are up to. Otherwise do a manual task.
I need to scrape some URLs from some retailer product pages, but the specific URLs I need to get aren't in the html part of the page. The html looks like this for each of the items on which one would click to get to the page with the URL I need to grab:
<div id="name" class="hand bold" onclick="AVON.productcontrol.Go(45714);">ADVANCE TECHNIQUES Color Protection Conditioner Bonus Size</div>
I wrote the following to get URLs from the page, but since the actual URLs I need don’t seem to be stored in the page, it doesn’t get what I need:
def getUrls(URL):
"""input: product page url
output: list of urls to products
"""
connection = urllib.urlopen(URL)
dom = lxml.html.fromstring(connection.read())
selAnchor = CSSSelector('a')
foundElements = selAnchor(dom)
urlList = [e.get('href') for e in foundElements]
return urlList
Is there a way to get the link that the function after ‘onclick’ (I guess AVON.productcontrol.Go(#);) takes you to? I don’t fully understand html, and while I’ve read a bit about onclick, I can’t figure out how the function after 'onclick' works.
In order to find the URL that you are taken to on click, you need to find the JavaScript source code of the 'Go' function and read and understand it. It's buried somewhere within a tag or some JavaScript .js file that is referenced directly or indirectly by the HTML page. Happy digging!
Or: you automate the interaction with the web page with a tool like Selenium (http://docs.seleniumhq.org/) and just check where it takes you if you click.
Im trying to scrape data from this website: http://www.bundesliga.de/de/liga/tabelle/
In the source code i can see the tables but there's no content, just things like:
<td>[no content]</td>
<td>[no content]</td>
<td>[no content]</td>
<td>[no content]</td>
....
With firebug (F12 in Firefox) i wont see any content too but i can select the table and then copy the innerHTML via firebug option. In that case i get all the informations about the teams, but i dont know how to get the table with the content in Jsoup.
To get the value of an attribute, use the Node.attr(String key) method
For the text on an element (and its combined children), use Element.text()
For HTML, use Element.html(), or Node.outerHtml() as appropriate
For example:
String html = "<p>An <a href='http://example.com/'><b>example</b></a> link.</p>";
Document doc = Jsoup.parse(html);
Element link = doc.select("a").first();
String text = doc.body().text(); // "An example link"
String linkHref = link.attr("href"); // "http://example.com/"
String linkText = link.text(); // "example""
String linkOuterH = link.outerHtml();
// "<b>example</b>"
String linkInnerH = link.html(); // "<b>example</b>"
reference:
http://jsoup.org/cookbook/extracting-data/attributes-text-html
The table is not rendered on the server directly, but build by the client side JavaScript of the page and constructed with data that is getting to the client via AJAX. So what you get with the naive Jsoup approach is expected.
I see two possible solutions:
You analyze the network traffic and identify the ajax calls that the site is making. Then you try to reconstruct the format and fire the same requests as the JavaScript would. Then you can reconstruct the table.
you don't use Jsoup but a real browser, that loads the page and runs the JavaScript including all AJAX calls. You could use Selenium webdriver for that. There is a headless browser called phantomjs which has a relatively small footprint that you can use in combination with selenium webdriver.
both options have their (dis)advantages:
This takes more time, since you need to understand the network traffic pretty good. The reward will be a very fast and memory efficient scraper.
The programming of selenium is very easy and you should not have any difficulties achieving your goal. You don't need to understand the inner workings of the site you want to scrape. However, the price is a further dependency in your project. Memory consumption is high. Another process runs. The scraping will be slow.
Maybe you find another source with the soccer table that is holding the infos you want? That might be the easiest. For example http://www.fussballdaten.de/bundesliga/