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BS4 returns [] instead of the wanted HTML tag

I want to parse the given website and scrape the table. To me the code looks right. New to python and web parsing
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
response = requests.get('https://delhifightscorona.in/')
doc = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'lxml-xml')
cases = doc.find_all('div', {"class": "cell"})
print(cases)
doing this returns
[]

Change your parser and the class and there you have it.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(requests.get('https://delhifightscorona.in/').text, 'html.parser').find('div', {"class": "grid-x grid-padding-x small-up-2"})
print(soup.find("h3").getText())
Output:
423,831

You can choose to print only the cases or the total stats with the date.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
response = requests.get('https://delhifightscorona.in/')
doc = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
stats = doc.find('div', {"class": "cell medium-5"})
print(stats.text) #Print the whole block with dates and the figures
cases = stats.find('h3')
print(cases.text) #Print the cases only

unable to Webscrape dropdown item [Python][beautifulsoup]

i am new to webscraping, i am scraping a website - https://www.valueresearchonline.com/funds/22/uti-mastershare-fund-regular-plan/
In this,i want to scrape this text - Regular Plan
But the thing is, when i do it using inspect element,
code -
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import csv
import sys
url = 'https://www.valueresearchonline.com/funds/newsnapshot.asp?schemecode=22'
res = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(res.text, "html.parser")
regular_direct = soup.find('span',class_="filter-option pull-left").text
print(regular_direct)
i get none in printing, and i don't know why, the code in inspect element and view page source is also different, because in view page source, this span and class is not there.
why i am getting none?? can anyone please tell me and how can i get that text and why inspect element code and view page source code are different?

You need to change the selector because the html source that gets downloaded is different.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import csv
import sys
url = 'https://www.valueresearchonline.com/funds/newsnapshot.asp?schemecode=22'
res = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(res.text, "html.parser")
regular_direct = soup.find("select", {"id":"select-plan"}).find("option",{"selected":"selected"}).get_text(strip=True)
print(regular_direct)
Output:
Regular plan

python BeautifulSoup4 - why does result print 5 times?

I'm trying to do some web scraping in python using BeautifulSoup 4.
I am trying to scrape the salary of an public employee. I am doing that successfully but the result is returned 5 times and I cannot figure out why.
Here is the website I am scraping: https://data.richmond.com/salaries/2018/state/university-of-virginia/tony-bennett
Here is my code example:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
source = requests.get(f'https://data.richmond.com/salaries/2018/state/university-of-virginia/tony-bennett')
soup = BeautifulSoup(source.text, 'html.parser')
main_box = soup.find_all('div')
for i in main_box:
try:
x = i.find('div', class_='col-12 col-lg-4 pay')
z = x.find('h2').text
print(z)
except Exception:
pass
And my results are:
$525,000
$525,000
$525,000
$525,000
$525,000
This is the correct salary, but as I said the results print 5 times.
If I go to the page, right click, and 'inspect' I find the class I am looking for, which is 'col-12 col-lg-4 pay' and then within that the 'h2' tag. There is only one 'h2' tag. And print the text of that.
So it seems I am missing something, but what?

I would just get rid of the for loop and use a more specific find query
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
source = requests.get(f'https://data.richmond.com/salaries/2018/state/university-of-virginia/tony-bennett')
soup = BeautifulSoup(source.text, 'html.parser')
main_box = soup.find("div", {"class": "pay"})
print(main_box.find('h2').text)

You can also extract this is by using CSS
import requests
import json
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = 'https://data.richmond.com/salaries/2018/state/university-of-virginia/tony-bennett'
res = requests.get(url).text
soup = BeautifulSoup(res , 'html.parser')
Value = soup.select('#paytotal')
print(Value[0].text)

Facebook Scraper

I'm trying to scrape Post and images from this facebook profile; https://www.facebook.com/carlostablanteoficial and getting nothing when trying to reach the actual post text with this code:
from urllib.request import urlopen
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html = urlopen("https://www.facebook.com/carlostablanteoficial")
res = BeautifulSoup(html.read(),"html5lib");
resdiv = res.div
post = resdiv.findAll('div', class_='text_exposed_root')
print(post)

This will return many results:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
data = requests.get("https://www.facebook.com/carlostablanteoficial")
soup = BeautifulSoup(data.text, 'html.parser')
for div in soup.find_all('div'):
print(div)
to search for a specific class, change the loop to:
for div in soup.find_all('div', {'class', 'text_exposed_root'}):
print(div)
but when I tried it returned nothing, meaning there is no div with that class on the page

How to scrape a specific table form website using python (beautifulsoup4 and requests or any other library)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union
Above is the link to website and I want to scrape table: Fortune top 10 E.U. corporations by revenue (2016).
Please, share the code for the same:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
def web_crawler(url):
page = requests.get(url)
plain_text = page.text
soup = BeautifulSoup(plain_text,"html.parser")
tables = soup.findAll("tbody")[1]
print(tables)
soup = web_crawler("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union")

following what #FanMan said , this is simple code to help you get started, keep in mind that you will need to clean it and also perform the rest of the work on your own.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union'
r=requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'html.parser')
temp_datastore=list()
for text in soup.findAll('p'):
w=text.findAll(text=True)
if(len(w)>0):
temp_datastore.append(w)
Some documentation
beautiful soup:https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/
requests: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/intro/
urllib: https://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib.html

You're first issue is that your url is not properly defined. After that you need to find the table to extract and it's class. In this case the class was "wikitable" and it was a the first table. I have started your code for you so it gives you the extracted data from the table. Web-scraping is good to learn but if your are just starting to program, practice with some simpler stuff first.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
def webcrawler():
url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union"
page = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.text,"html.parser")
tables = soup.findAll("table", class_='wikitable')[0]
print(tables)
webcrawler()