This is because most users will try to load the html using urllib (like the example above) or a third party library like requests.
#Web scraping with beautiful soup code#
Matching elements that don't get loadedĮven if your BeautifulSoup code is perfect, you may still not see the result you expected after looking at the page's source in a browser. It's mainly useful if you can express the search as a CSS selector, and you need to keep in mind that support for pseudo classes is very limited. findAll(), and it may perform differently. select() could also work for some of the problems above, but it lacks some of the options of. This selects only div elements that have the one class and the other. To actually match divs with the item class, the code would have to be: result = soup.findAll('div', ) #. There would be at least 4 matches - the first being the outer div with all the contents, and then the inner divs separately. If it instead read: result = soup.findAll('div') Where the code above reads: result = soup.findAll('item') It's also possible that a response is only correct after previous pages have been visited, and again provide the correct headers or cookie may resolve that. A status code of 500 indicates a server problem, which may be caused by making a request that causes a problem on the server side.
A status code of 403 would indicate access is not allowed and may be resolved by added headers or cookies. a http response status other than 200 is returned). Other common problems are a page not actually loading (i.e.
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