UnicodeEncodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t encode characters
I’m trying to scrape a website, but it gives me an error.
beautifulsoup
How to find elements by class
I’m having trouble parsing HTML elements with “class” attribute using Beautifulsoup. The code looks like this
Extracting an attribute value with beautifulsoup
I am trying to extract the content of a single “value” attribute in a specific “input” tag on a webpage. I use the following code:
BeautifulSoup Grab Visible Webpage Text
Basically, I want to use BeautifulSoup to grab strictly the visible text on a webpage. For instance, this webpage is my test case. And I mainly want to just get the body text (article) and maybe even a few tab names here and there. I have tried the suggestion in this SO question that returns lots of <script> tags and html comments which I don’t want. I can’t figure out the arguments I need for the function findAll() in order to just get the visible texts on a webpage.
can we use XPath with BeautifulSoup?
I am using BeautifulSoup to scrape an URL and I had the following code, to find the td tag whose class is 'empformbody':
python BeautifulSoup parsing table
I’m learning python requests and BeautifulSoup. For an exercise, I’ve chosen to write a quick NYC parking ticket parser. I am able to get an html response which is quite ugly. I need to grab the lineItemsTable and parse all the tickets.
Scraping: SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED error for http://en.wikipedia.org
I’m practicing the code from ‘Web Scraping with Python’, and I keep having this certificate problem:
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not ‘str’ in python and CSV
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not ‘str’
Using BeautifulSoup to extract text without tags
My webpage looks like this:
Only extracting text from this element, not its children
I want to extract only the text from the top-most element of my soup; however soup.text gives the text of all the child elements as well: