Converting JSON encoded in HTML to JSON using BeautifulSoup - html

Question

I know similar questions have been asked here, but I'm still struggling to find a solution here. I'm able to parse raw HTML from the bandsintown website, using beautifulSoup, but my ultimate goal is to access the script on the page and access a JSON embedded in the script. Opening the page source, I can see that "eventsJsonLd" is what I need:
"jsonLdContainer":{"eventsJsonLd":[{"#context":"http://schema.org","#type":"MusicEvent","startDate":"2019-01-25","endDate":"2019-01-25","url":"https://www.bandsintown.com/e/100451456-pop-rocks-at-hopmonk-tavern-novato?came_from=244","location":{"#type":"Place","name":"HopMonk Tavern Novato","address":"Novato, CA","geo":{"#type":"GeoCoordinates","latitude":38.1074198,"longitude":-122.5697032}},"name":"Pop Rocks","performer":{"#type":"MusicGroup","name":"Pop Rocks","image":"https://photos.bandsintown.com/thumb/8532836.jpeg","url":"https://www.bandsintown.com/a/29109-pop-rocks?came_from=244"},"image":"https://photos.bandsintown.com/thumb/8532836.jpeg"},
Here's my code:
#define url and build url array to cycle through webpages
page = 'https://www.bandsintown.com/?came_from=257&page='
urlBucket = []
for i in range (0,2):
uniqueUrl = page + str(i)
urlBucket.append(uniqueUrl)
# dump response into an array
responseBucket = []
for i in urlBucket:
uniqueResponse = requests.get(i)
responseBucket.append(uniqueResponse)
#Make the 'soup'
soupBucket = []
for i in responseBucket:
individualSoup = BeautifulSoup(i.text, 'html.parser')
soupBucket.append(individualSoup)
# Build an array to hold script
allScript = []
for i in soupBucket:
script = i.find_all("script")[4]
eventsJSON = json.loads(script)
print script
allScript.append(script)
print allScript
Print allScript gives me the following:
[<script type="application/ld+json">[{"#context":"http://schema.org","#type":"MusicEvent","startDate":"2019-01-26","endDate":"2019-01-26","url":"https://www.bandsintown.com/e/100653596-e.r.n.e.s.t.o-at-the-endup?came_from=244","location":{"#type":"Place","name":"The EndUp","address":"SF, CA","geo":{"#type":"GeoCoordinates","latitude":37.7726402,"longitude":-122.4099154}},"name":"E.R.N.E.S.T.O","performer":{"#type":"MusicGroup","name":"E.R.N.E.S.T.O","image":"https://photos.bandsintown.com/thumb/8618862.jpeg","url":"https://www.bandsintown.com/a/4693798-e.r.n.e.s.t.o?came_from=244"},"image":"https://photos.bandsintown.com/thumb/8618862.jpeg"},{"#context":"http://schema.org","#type":"MusicEvent","startDate":"2019-01-26","endDate":"2019-01-26","url":"https://www.bandsintown.com/e/1012239291-j.j.-grey-and-mofro-at-uptown-theatre-napa?came_from=244","location":{"#type":"Place","name":"Uptown Theatre Napa","address":"Napa, CA","geo":{"#type":"GeoCoordinates","latitude":38.2963465,"longitude":-122.2873698}},"name":"J.J. Grey & Mofro","performer":{"#type":"MusicGroup","name":"J.J. Grey & Mofro","image":"https://photos.bandsintown.com/thumb/219177.jpeg","url":"https://www.bandsintown.com/a/2327212-j.j.-grey-and-mofro?came_from=244"},"image":"https://photos.bandsintown.com/thumb/219177.jpeg"},{"#context":"http://schema.org","#type":"MusicEvent","startDate":"2019-01-26","endDate":"2019-01-26","url":"https://www.bandsintown.com/e/1012239613-j.j.-grey-at-uptown-theatre-napa?came_from=244","location":{"#type":"Place","name":"Uptown Theatre Napa","address":"Napa, CA","geo":{"#type":"GeoCoordinates","latitude":38.2963465,"longitude":-122.2873698}},"name":"J.J. Grey","performer":{"#type":"MusicGroup","name":"J.J. Grey","image":"","url":"https://www.bandsintown.com/a/12437162-j.j.-grey?came_from=244"},"image":""},{"#context":"http://schema.org","#type":"MusicEvent","startDate":"2019-01-26","endDate":"2019-01-26","url":"https://www.bandsintown.com/e/1012239435-mofro-at-uptown-theatre-napa?came_from=244","location":{"#type":"Place","name":"Uptown Theatre Napa","address":"Napa, CA","geo":{"#type":"GeoCoordinates","latitude":38.2963465,"longitude":-122.2873698}},"name":"Mofro","performer":{"#type":"MusicGroup","name":"Mofro","image":"","url":"https://www.bandsintown.com/a/71714-mofro?came_from=244"},"image":""},{"#context":"http://schema.org","#type":"MusicEvent","startDate":"2019-01-26","endDate":"2019-01-26","url":"https://www.bandsintown.com/e/100542800-brooke-heinichen-at-stuffed?came_from=244","location":{"#type":"Place","name":"Stuffed","address":"San Francisco, CA","geo":{"#type":"GeoCoordinates","latitude":37.7485824,"longitude":-122.4184108}},"name":"Brooke Heinichen","performer":{"#type":"MusicGroup","name":"Brooke Heinichen","image":"https://photos.bandsintown.com/thumb/8921909.jpeg","url":"https://www.bandsintown.com/a/14944274-brooke-heinichen?came_from=244"},"image":"https://photos.bandsintown.com/thumb/8921909.jpeg"},{"#context":"http://schema.org","#type":"MusicEvent","startDate":"2019-01-26","endDate":"2019-01-26","url":"https://www.bandsintown.com/e/1012486121-william-fitzsimmons-at-hopmonk-tavern?came_from=244","location":{"#type":"Place","name":"Hopmonk Tavern","address":"Novato, CA","geo":{"#type":"GeoCoordinates","latitude":38.088489,"longitude":-122.553449}},"name":"William Fitzsimmons","performer":{"#type":"MusicGroup","name":"William 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Deli","address":"SF, CA","geo":{"#type":"GeoCoordinates","latitude":37.774627,"longitude":-122.509993}},"name":"Rusty Jackson Music","performer":{"#type":"MusicGroup","name":"Rusty Jackson Music","image":"https://photos.bandsintown.com/thumb/8250003.jpeg","url":"https://www.bandsintown.com/a/9978762-rusty-jackson-music?came_from=244"},"image":"https://photos.bandsintown.com/thumb/8250003.jpeg"}]</script>]
But, printing eventsJSON gives me an error:
TypeError: expected string or buffer
I want to be able to build a new JSON based on specific attributes in eventsJsonLd, ie "startDate", "name", etc. Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You are passing the script tag into json.loads, this is not string but an object of the bs4.element.Tag class.
script = i.find_all("script")[4]
print(type(script))
Output
<class 'bs4.element.Tag'>
You need to get the text from the tag and pass it to json.loads
eventsJSON = json.loads(script.text)
Note:
The current url you try (https://www.bandsintown.com/?came_from=257&page=0) has the contents of that script tag as empty, i was able to get an output for a different url (https://www.bandsintown.com/a/29109-pop-rocks) of the same domain.
print(eventsJSON[0])
Gave an output
{u'startDate': u'2019-02-15T21:00:00', u'performer': {u'url': u'https://www.bandsintown.com/a/29109-pop-rocks?came_from=244', u'image': u'https://photos.bandsintown.com/thumb/8532836.jpeg', u'#type': u'MusicGroup', u'name': u'Pop Rocks'}, u'name': u'Pop Rocks', u'url': u'https://www.bandsintown.com/e/100544648-pop-rocks-at-the-chapel?came_from=244', u'image': u'https://photos.bandsintown.com/thumb/8532836.jpeg', u'location': {u'address': u'San Francisco, CA', u'geo': {u'latitude': 37.7485824, u'#type': u'GeoCoordinates', u'longitude': -122.4184108}, u'#type': u'Place', u'name': u'The Chapel'}, u'#context': u'http://schema.org', u'#type': u'MusicEvent', u'description': u'Pop Rocks at The Chapel 2019-02-15T21:00:00'}