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I'm Trying To Scrape The Duration Of Tiktok Videos But I am Getting 'None'

I want to scrape the duration of tiktok videos for an upcoming project but my code isn't working
import requests; from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
content = requests.get('https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFFKmx3K/').text
soup = BeautifulSoup(content, 'lxml')
data = soup.find('div', class_="tiktok-1g3unbt-DivSeekBarTimeContainer e123m2eu1")
print(data)
Using an example tiktok
I would think this would work could anyone help

If you turn off JavaScript then check out the element selection in chrome devtools then you will see that the value is like 00/000 but when you will turn JS and the video is on play mode then the duration is increasing uoto finishig.So the real duration value of that element depends on Js. So you have to use an automation tool something like selenium to grab that dynamic value. And How much duration will scrape that depend on time.sleep() if you are on selenium. If time.sleep is more than the video length then it will show None typEerror.
Example:
import time
from selenium import webdriver
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
webdriver_service = Service("./chromedriver") #Your chromedriver path
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=webdriver_service)
url ='https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFFKmx3K/'
driver.get(url)
driver.maximize_window()
time.sleep(25)
soup = BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source,"lxml")
data = soup.find('div', class_="tiktok-1g3unbt-DivSeekBarTimeContainer e123m2eu1")
print(data.text)
Output:
00:25/00:28

the ID associated is likely randomized. Try using regex to get element by class ending in 'TimeContainer' + some other id
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re
content = requests.get('https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFFKmx3K/').text
soup = BeautifulSoup(content, 'lxml')
data = soup.find('div', {'class': re.compile(r'TimeContainer.*$')})
print(data)
you next issue is that the page loads before the video, so you'll get 0/0 for the time. try selenium instead so you can add timer waits for loading

Scraping using beautiful soup not working fully?

I was trying to scrape some data using BeautifulSoup on python from the site 'https://www.geappliances.com/ge-appliances/kitchen/ranges/' which has some products.
import unittest, time, random
from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.firefox import GeckoDriverManager
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import pandas as pd
links = []
browser = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path="C:\\Users\\drivers\\geckodriver\\win64\\v0.29.1\\geckodriver.exe")
browser.get("https://www.geappliances.com/ge-appliances/kitchen/ranges/")
content = browser.page_source
soup = BeautifulSoup(content, "html.parser")
for main in soup.findAll('li', attrs = {'class' : 'product'}):
name=main.find('a', href=True)
if (name != ''):
links.append((name.get('href')).strip())
print("Got links : ", len(links))
exit()
Here in output I get:-
Got links: 0
I printed the soup and saw that this part was not there in the soup. I have been trying to get around this problem to no avail.
Am I doing something wrong? Any suggestion are appreciated. Thanks.

Study the source of the webpage.Check your findAll function.

You should wait till the page loads. Use time.sleep() to pause execution for a while.
You can try like this.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from selenium import webdriver
import time
url = 'https://www.geappliances.com/ge-appliances/kitchen/ranges/'
driver = webdriver.Chrome("chromedriver.exe")
driver.get(url)
time.sleep(5)
soup = BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source, 'lxml')
u = soup.find('ul', class_='productGrid')
for item in u.find_all('li', class_='product'):
print(item.find('a')['href'])
driver.close()
/appliance/GE-Profile-30-Smart-Slide-In-Front-Control-Induction-Fingerprint-Resistant-Range-with-In-Oven-Camera-PHS93XYPFS
/appliance/GE-Profile-30-Electric-Pizza-Oven-PS96PZRSS
/appliance/GE-Profile-30-Smart-Slide-In-Front-Control-Gas-Double-Oven-Convection-Fingerprint-Resistant-Range-PGS960YPFS
/appliance/GE-Profile-30-Smart-Dual-Fuel-Slide-In-Front-Control-Fingerprint-Resistant-Range-P2S930YPFS
/appliance/GE-Profile-30-Smart-Slide-In-Electric-Double-Oven-Convection-Fingerprint-Resistant-Range-PS960YPFS
/appliance/GE-Profile-30-Smart-Slide-In-Front-Control-Induction-and-Convection-Range-with-No-Preheat-Air-Fry-PHS930BPTS
/appliance/GE-Profile-30-Smart-Slide-In-Fingerprint-Resistant-Front-Control-Induction-and-Convection-Range-with-No-Preheat-Air-Fry-PHS930YPFS
/appliance/GE-Profile-30-Smart-Slide-In-Front-Control-Gas-Range-with-No-Preheat-Air-Fry-PGS930BPTS
/appliance/GE-Profile-30-Smart-Slide-In-Front-Control-Gas-Fingerprint-Resistant-Range-with-No-Preheat-Air-Fry-PGS930YPFS
/appliance/GE-Profile-30-Smart-Slide-In-Electric-Convection-Range-with-No-Preheat-Air-Fry-PSS93BPTS
/appliance/GE-Profile-30-Smart-Slide-In-Electric-Convection-Fingerprint-Resistant-Range-with-No-Preheat-Air-Fry-PSS93YPFS
/appliance/GE-30-Slide-In-Front-Control-Gas-Double-Oven-Range-JGSS86SPSS

How to scrape url's from a website with python beautiful-soup?

I was trying to scrape some url's from a particular link, I used beautiful-soup for scraping those links, but I'm not able to scrape those links. Here I'm attaching the code which I have used. Actually, I want to scrape the urls from the class "fxs_aheadline_tiny"
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = 'https://www.fxstreet.com/news?q=&hPP=17&idx=FxsIndexPro&p=0&dFR%5BTags%5D%5B0%5D=EURUSD'
r1 = requests.get(url)
coverpage = r1.content
soup1 = BeautifulSoup(coverpage, 'html.parser')
coverpage_news = soup1.find_all('h4', class_='fxs_aheadline_tiny')
print(coverpage_news)
Thank you

I would use Selenium.
Please, try this code:
from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
#open driver
driver= webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
driver.get('https://www.fxstreet.com/news?q=&hPP=17&idx=FxsIndexPro&p=0&dFR%5BTags%5D%5B0%5D=EURUSD')
# Use ChroPath to identify the xpath for the 'page hits'
pagehits=driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[#class='ais-hits']")
# search for all a tags
links=pagehits.find_elements_by_tag_name("a")
# For each link get the href
for link in links:
print(link.get_attribute('href'))
It exactly does what you want: it takes out all urls/links on your search page (that means also the links to the authors pages).
You could even consider automating the browser and moving through the search page results. See for this the Selenium documentation:https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/
Hope this helps

Web scraper only works for a few minutes after I've opened the web page I want to scrape

Here is the bit of relevant code:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from selenium import webdriver
item = 'https://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/730/AK-47%20%7C%20Redline%20%28Field-Tested%29'
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(item)
res = driver.execute_script('return document.documentElement.outerHTML')
driver.quit()
soup = BeautifulSoup(res, 'lxml')
buyorder_table = soup.find('table', {'class': 'market_commodity_orders_table'})
print(buyorder_table)
When I run this code normally it prints
None
But when I open the item url in my browser, then run the code it returns the table that I want (and then I have code to parse it).
I found this seemingly helpful article but I tried using the built-in HTML parser and had the same issue, which I think is the suggested solution in the article.
Is there any way to fix this issue? Thanks in advance.

Why am I not getting the value of the field rather than the field itself?

so I'm trying to do web scraping for the first time using BeautifulSoup and Python. The page that I am trying to scrape is at: http://vesselregister.dnvgl.com/VesselRegister/vesseldetails.html?vesselid=34172
client = request('http://vesselregister.dnvgl.com/VesselRegister/vesseldetails.html?vesselid=34172')
page_html = client.read()
client.close()
page_soup = soup(page_html)
identification = page_soup.find('div', {'data-bind':'text: name'})
print(identification.text)
When I do this I simply get an empty string. If I print out simply the identification variable I get:
<div class="col-xs-7" data-bind="text: name"></div>
This is the line of html that I am trying to get the value of, as you can see there is a value A LEBLANC there in the tag

You can try this code :
from selenium import webdriver
driver=webdriver.Chrome()
browser=driver.get('http://vesselregister.dnvgl.com/VesselRegister/vesseldetails.html?vesselid=34172')
find=driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="identificationCollapse"]/div/div/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]')
print(find.text)
output:
A LEBLANC

There are several ways you can achieve the same goal. However, I've used selector in my script which is easy to understand and has got less chance to break unless the html structure of that website is heavily changed. Try this out as well.
from selenium import webdriver
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('http://vesselregister.dnvgl.com/VesselRegister/vesseldetails.html?vesselid=34172')
soup = BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source,"lxml")
driver.quit()
item_name = soup.select("[data-bind$='name']")[0].text
print(item_name)
Result:
A LEBLANC
Btw, the way you started will also work:
from selenium import webdriver
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('http://vesselregister.dnvgl.com/VesselRegister/vesseldetails.html?vesselid=34172')
soup = BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source,"lxml")
driver.quit()
item_name = soup.find('div', {'data-bind':'text: name'}).text
print(item_name)