i'm a beginner python (3) user and i'm currently trying to scrape some sports stats for my fantasy football season. Previously I did this in a round about way (downloading in HT-track, converting to excel and using VBA to combine my data). But now I'm trying to learn python to improve my coding abilities.
I want to scrape this page but running into some difficulty in selecting only the rows/tables I want. Here is how my code currently stands. It still has a bit of code where I have been trying to play around with it.
from urllib.request import urlopen # import the library
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # Import BS
from bs4 import SoupStrainer # Import Soup Strainer
page = urlopen('http://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_match_statistics?mid=6172') # access the website
only_tables = SoupStrainer('table') # parse only table elements when parsing
soup = BeautifulSoup(page, 'html.parser') # parse the html
# for row in soup('table',{'class':'tbody'}[0].tbody('tr')):
# tds = row('td')
# print (tds[0].string, tds[1].string)
# create variables to keep the data in
team = []
player = []
kicks = []
handballs = []
disposals = []
marks = []
goals = []
tackles = []
hitouts = []
inside50s = []
freesfor = []
freesagainst = []
fantasy = []
supercoach = []
table = soup.find_all('tr')
# print(soup.prettify())
print(table)
Right now I can select all 'tr' from the page, however I'm having trouble only selecting the rows which have the following attribute:
<tr bgcolor="#ffffff" onmouseout="this.bgColor='#ffffff';" onmouseover="this.bgColor='#cbcdd0';">
"onmouseover" seems to be the only attribute which is common/unique to the table I want to scrape.
Does anyone know how I can alter this line of code, to select this attribute?
table = soup.find_all('tr')
From here I am confident I can place the data into a dataframe which hopefully I can export to CSV.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have looked through the BS4 documentation with no luck.
As explained on the BeautifulSoup documentation
You may use this :
table = soup.findAll("tr", {"bgcolor": "#ffffff", "onmouseout": "this.bgColor='#ffffff'", "onmouseover": "this.bgColor='#cbcdd0';"})
More, you can also use the following approach:
tr_tag = soup.findAll(lambda tag:tag.name == "tr" and tag["bgcolor"] == "#ffffff") and tag["onmouseout"] = "this.bgColor='#ffffff'" and tag["onmouseover"] = "this.bgColor='#cbcdd0';"
The advantage of the above approach is that it uses the full power of BS and it's giving you the result in a very optimized way
Check this:
soup.find_all("tr", attrs={"onmouseover" : "this.bgColor='#cbcdd0';"})
So, I'm working on a little program that will automatically check and download new music from a bunch of given YouTube channels. I'm currently working on a way to obtain the links of all the uploaded videos each channel has, which I'm doing like a scraper. (Yes, the YouTube API would probably be the proper way to go, but I don't know how to properly use it yet.)
from __future__ import unicode_literals
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib.request
ytlink = 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUvoulvwzCnUVk7yoduI_Gw/videos'
r = urllib.request.urlopen(ytlink).read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(r, "html.parser")
links = soup.find_all('a', {"class": "yt-uix-sessionlink yt-uix-tile-link spf-link yt-ui-ellipsis yt-ui-ellipsis-2"})
for tag in links:
link = tag.get('href', None)
if link is not None:
print(link)
This is what I currently have, the problem is, it currently only grabs the first 30 video links since those are the only ones on screen. I've already seen that when the "Load More" button is pressed it executes some Ajax which is initiated by some JavaScript. My question is: How can I get Python to keep triggering the "Load More" button until all uploads are visible?
You can easily mimic the ajax calls and parse the json output returned, we just need to pull the /browse_ajax?action_continuation=... url and keep requesting until it is no longer in the json returned:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
from urlparse import urljoin # python 3 -> from urllib.parse import urljoin
def get_links():
# cretate all css selectors
ytlink = 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUvoulvwzCnUVk7yoduI_Gw/videos'
ajax_css = "button[data-uix-load-more-href]"
link_css = "a.yt-uix-sessionlink.yt-uix-tile-link.spf-link.yt-ui-ellipsis.yt-ui-ellipsis-2"
base = "https://www.youtube.com/"
r = requests.get(ytlink).content
soup = BeautifulSoup(r, "lxml")
# yield first visible links
for link in soup.select(link_css):
yield urljoin(base, link["href"])
# Load more button
ajax = soup.select(ajax_css)[0]["data-uix-load-more-href"]
while True:
print(ajax)
r = requests.get(urljoin('https://www.youtube.com/', ajax))
# next html is stored in the json.values()
soup = BeautifulSoup("".join(r.json().values()), "lxml")
for link in soup.select(link_css):
yield urljoin(base, link["href"])
ajax = soup.select(ajax_css)
# if empty "Load more" button would be gone
if not ajax:
break
ajax = ajax[0]["data-uix-load-more-href"]
That would give you all 87 links.
In [26]: links = list(get_links())
/browse_ajax?action_continuation=1&continuation=4qmFsgJAEhhVQ1V2b3Vsdnd6Q25VVms3eW9kdUlfR3caJEVnWjJhV1JsYjNNZ0FEZ0JZQUZxQUhvQk1yZ0JBQSUzRCUzRA%253D%253D
/browse_ajax?action_continuation=1&continuation=4qmFsgJAEhhVQ1V2b3Vsdnd6Q25VVms3eW9kdUlfR3caJEVnWjJhV1JsYjNNZ0FEZ0JZQUZxQUhvQk03Z0JBQSUzRCUzRA%253D%253D
In [27]: len(links)
Out[27]: 87
In [28]: print(links)
['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjmzIu4VJEY', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecRpNV8Xob8', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdHoaoAhnMo', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oqBKEvdrqE', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIbvfOd34-A', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4G8ge1VO5s', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkW0f2iUOCc', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex2NIeXfYl8', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMd4pSX-aVs', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS7KjUjlLWA', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEq9sQJLOgg', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSgaCowC5TY', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV5Ive_zJT4', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snThWzMroaA', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud6YhBCucPg', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nSfyivyxdg', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7hf2wqpUY4', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVBvxkVt9wc', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcI25yU9yso', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMIZZS8HY8A', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWD3Zi23rIs', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-IbllcTi64', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_tW_UxG8bM', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQd0mopVnQg', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG8NJlsg4rI', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsaNY6xpnKY', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=839h3eZMSWA', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_yytPtWmP0', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGESQfB9dYM', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5R-1uTJhg', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgqLck9SFOc', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCaFEsxd-Y8', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlpMbnOqP20', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj1QT5bxFlA', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMtKCu6a7gQ', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV6x33mf4WI', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhlXuTtmNqE', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TWN1G5e-tg', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgjeYTkROyk', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hFkFoOf-aA', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH1u_KQapfw', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-l-FGDsbjw', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFSgyE64Jjw', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhDBtfvv2BM', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFgPFi04oTo', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58a45EfYv1g', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtYl5TbK2nc', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI-1qxoDRnw', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0M90HqibHI', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llb19v7QiXU', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqhL_Ms6vuY', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFFRgAjXs1Y', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eHFG5AACHI', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eVOx8Sw9Jg', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s_XvG3M-UI', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzdO01_tKFo', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA2KkxfSW_U', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Lt1LQtp5k', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfJ9p5iJGz8', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjMHd1xVlS0', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkZ0FISTxkk', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkhD8kYi4MI', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bQajpTnOrY', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XglzEbcjP8c', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBszbh6Qwag', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVGWndVjCYg', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgJxj2cUoyQ', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaEVwakp_rI', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YnpS-IaYCw', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEFSFU2a9CY', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc2aVD4pwnk', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY1dOJEv4j4', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwjXt2pWoBE', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqn26tWxNsI', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiv6JqGhcCU', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFi47HLPqoM', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1zdWugNdy0', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngOBscDs3T4', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT5dQVZ-VQY', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bifExgZW7k0', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBEbaEgox1Y', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDy9aGFngkY', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i06Iv0k5fVY', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NaRXV7uyPE', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl0nIoLJUU0', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXo0T4dRdgA', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-7H5Wq0_2Y']
I left the print(ajax) call in so you can see how it changes.
You could use selenium with PhantomJs which would look something like:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException,StaleElementReferenceException
ytlink = 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUvoulvwzCnUVk7yoduI_Gw/videos'
hrefs = "a.yt-uix-sessionlink.yt-uix-tile-link.spf-link.yt-ui-ellipsis.yt-ui-ellipsis-2"
ajax= "button[data-uix-load-more-href]"
dr = webdriver.PhantomJS()
dr.get(ytlink)
while True:
try:
load_mode_b = dr.find_element_by_css_selector(ajax)
load_mode_b.click()
except StaleElementReferenceException as e:
print(e)
except NoSuchElementException as e:
print(e)
break
Which if we run we see the exact same output:
In [32]: l = [a.get_attribute("href") for a in dr.find_elements_by_css_selector(hrefs)]
In [33]: len(l)
Out[33]: 87
In [34]: print(l)
[u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjmzIu4VJEY', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecRpNV8Xob8', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdHoaoAhnMo', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oqBKEvdrqE', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIbvfOd34-A', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4G8ge1VO5s', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkW0f2iUOCc', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex2NIeXfYl8', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMd4pSX-aVs', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS7KjUjlLWA', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEq9sQJLOgg', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSgaCowC5TY', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV5Ive_zJT4', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snThWzMroaA', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud6YhBCucPg', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nSfyivyxdg', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7hf2wqpUY4', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVBvxkVt9wc', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcI25yU9yso', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMIZZS8HY8A', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWD3Zi23rIs', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-IbllcTi64', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_tW_UxG8bM', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQd0mopVnQg', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG8NJlsg4rI', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsaNY6xpnKY', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=839h3eZMSWA', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_yytPtWmP0', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGESQfB9dYM', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5R-1uTJhg', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgqLck9SFOc', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCaFEsxd-Y8', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlpMbnOqP20', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj1QT5bxFlA', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMtKCu6a7gQ', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV6x33mf4WI', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhlXuTtmNqE', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TWN1G5e-tg', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgjeYTkROyk', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hFkFoOf-aA', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH1u_KQapfw', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-l-FGDsbjw', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFSgyE64Jjw', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhDBtfvv2BM', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFgPFi04oTo', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58a45EfYv1g', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtYl5TbK2nc', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI-1qxoDRnw', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0M90HqibHI', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llb19v7QiXU', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqhL_Ms6vuY', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFFRgAjXs1Y', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eHFG5AACHI', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eVOx8Sw9Jg', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s_XvG3M-UI', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzdO01_tKFo', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA2KkxfSW_U', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Lt1LQtp5k', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfJ9p5iJGz8', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjMHd1xVlS0', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkZ0FISTxkk', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkhD8kYi4MI', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bQajpTnOrY', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XglzEbcjP8c', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBszbh6Qwag', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVGWndVjCYg', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgJxj2cUoyQ', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaEVwakp_rI', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YnpS-IaYCw', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEFSFU2a9CY', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc2aVD4pwnk', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY1dOJEv4j4', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwjXt2pWoBE', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqn26tWxNsI', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiv6JqGhcCU', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFi47HLPqoM', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1zdWugNdy0', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngOBscDs3T4', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT5dQVZ-VQY', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bifExgZW7k0', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBEbaEgox1Y', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDy9aGFngkY', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i06Iv0k5fVY', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NaRXV7uyPE', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl0nIoLJUU0', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXo0T4dRdgA', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-7H5Wq0_2Y']
I scraping a site with Beautiful Soup. The problem I have is that certain parts of the site are paginated with JS, with an unknown (varying) number of pages to scrape.
I'm trying to get around this with a generator, but it's my first time writing one and I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it and figuring out if what I'm doing makes sense.
Code:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib
import urllib2
import jabba_webkit as jw
import csv
import string
import re
import time
tlds = csv.reader(open("top_level_domains.csv", 'r'), delimiter=';')
sites = csv.writer(open("websites_to_scrape.csv", "w"), delimiter=',')
tld = "uz"
has_next = True
page = 0
def create_link(tld, page):
if page == 0:
link = "https://domaintyper.com/top-websites/most-popular-websites-with-" + tld + "-domain"
else:
link = "https://domaintyper.com/top-websites/most-popular-websites-with-" + tld + "-domain/page/" + repr(page)
return link
def check_for_next(soup):
disabled_nav = soup.find(class_="pagingDivDisabled")
if disabled_nav:
if "Next" in disabled_nav:
return False
else:
return True
else:
return True
def make_soup(link):
html = jw.get_page(link)
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "lxml")
return soup
def all_the_pages(counter):
while True:
link = create_link(tld, counter)
soup = make_soup(link)
if check_for_next(soup) == True:
yield counter
else:
break
counter += 1
def scrape_page(soup):
table = soup.find('table', {'class': 'rankTable'})
th = table.find('tbody')
test = th.find_all("td")
correct_cells = range(1,len(test),3)
for cell in correct_cells:
#print test[cell]
url = repr(test[cell])
content = re.sub("<[^>]*>", "", url)
sites.writerow([tld]+[content])
def main():
for page in all_the_pages(0):
print page
link = create_link(tld, page)
print link
soup = make_soup(link)
scrape_page(soup)
main()
My thinking behind the code:
The scraper should get the page, determine if there is another page that follows, scrape the current page and move to the next one, repreating the process. If there is no next page, it should stop. Does that make sense how I'm going it here?
As I told you, you could use selenium for programmatically clicking on the Next button, but since that is not an option for you, I can think of the following method to get the number of pages using pure BS4:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
def page_count():
pages = 1
url = "https://domaintyper.com/top-websites/most-popular-websites-with-uz-domain/page/{}"
while True:
html = requests.get(url.format(pages)).content
soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
table = soup.find('table', {'class': 'rankTable'})
if len(table.find_all('tr')) <= 1:
return pages
pages += 1