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Beautiful Soup and extracting a div and its contents by ID

soup.find("tagName", { "id" : "articlebody" }) Why does this NOT return the <div id="articlebody"> ... </div> tags and stuff in between? It returns ...

June 1, 2022
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Programming, Python

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TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not ‘str’ in python and CSV

TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not ‘str’ getting above error while Executing below python code to save the HTML table data in ...

May 28, 2022
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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: from urllib.request import urlopen from bs4 import ...

May 26, 2022
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BeautifulSoup getting href [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: retrieve links from web page using python and BeautifulSoup [closed] (16 answers) Closed 8 years ago. I ...

May 17, 2022
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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 ...

May 15, 2022
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bs4.FeatureNotFound: Couldn’t find a tree builder with the features you requested: lxml. Do you need to install a parser library?

... soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "lxml") File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/bs4/__init__.py", line 152, in __init__ % ",".join(features)) bs4.FeatureNotFound: Couldn't find a tree builder with the features you ...

May 11, 2022
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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: import urllib.request from bs4 import BeautifulSoup ...

May 9, 2022
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How to find elements by class

I’m having trouble parsing HTML elements with “class” attribute using Beautifulsoup. The code looks like this soup = BeautifulSoup(sdata) mydivs = soup.findAll('div') for ...

May 1, 2022
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UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\xa0′ in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)

I’m having problems dealing with unicode characters from text fetched from different web pages (on different sites). I am using BeautifulSoup. The problem ...

April 13, 2022
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