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I'm beginning with Python and BeautifulSoup. I want to scrape a website with BS and I don't understand my code result and the use of find and find_all. I want to get an URL in an href tag.



<div class="xBRiJc">
<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/cluster?
clp=igNLChkKEzc4NDcxODQ2MTE5MjkxMDc4NTgQCBgDEiwKJmFhZGVtby5zdXBlcmF3ZXNvbWUudHYuYXdlc29tZWFkc2RlbW8yEAEYAxgB:S:ANO1ljKZ36s&amp;gsr=Ck6KA0sKGQoTNzg0NzE4NDYxMTkyOTEwNzg1OBAIGAMSLAomYWFkZW1vLnN1cGVyYXdlc29tZS50di5hd2Vzb21lYWRzZGVtbzIQARgDGAE%3D:S:ANO1ljKKOPI"> .
<h2 class="C7Bf8e bs3Xnd">SuperAwesome LTD</h2></a></div>


Here is my python code :



    developer_link = bs.find("div",{"class":"xBRiJc"})
print(developer_link.get('href'))


Why the result of my print command 'None' and not the URL in the href tag?










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    the href attribute is in the a tag inside the div tag... not on the div tag itself...
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  • More over these are dynamic contents generated on the fly. class='xBRiJc' will not match in the next run. Look into a module that supports rendering dynamic contents like selenium or requests-html.
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    Nov 19 at 20:11












  • @JonClements Thank you for your answer
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    Nov 19 at 20:13















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I'm beginning with Python and BeautifulSoup. I want to scrape a website with BS and I don't understand my code result and the use of find and find_all. I want to get an URL in an href tag.



<div class="xBRiJc">
<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/cluster?
clp=igNLChkKEzc4NDcxODQ2MTE5MjkxMDc4NTgQCBgDEiwKJmFhZGVtby5zdXBlcmF3ZXNvbWUudHYuYXdlc29tZWFkc2RlbW8yEAEYAxgB:S:ANO1ljKZ36s&amp;gsr=Ck6KA0sKGQoTNzg0NzE4NDYxMTkyOTEwNzg1OBAIGAMSLAomYWFkZW1vLnN1cGVyYXdlc29tZS50di5hd2Vzb21lYWRzZGVtbzIQARgDGAE%3D:S:ANO1ljKKOPI"> .
<h2 class="C7Bf8e bs3Xnd">SuperAwesome LTD</h2></a></div>


Here is my python code :



    developer_link = bs.find("div",{"class":"xBRiJc"})
print(developer_link.get('href'))


Why the result of my print command 'None' and not the URL in the href tag?










share|improve this question




















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    the href attribute is in the a tag inside the div tag... not on the div tag itself...
    – Jon Clements
    Nov 19 at 19:54










  • More over these are dynamic contents generated on the fly. class='xBRiJc' will not match in the next run. Look into a module that supports rendering dynamic contents like selenium or requests-html.
    – Idlehands
    Nov 19 at 20:11












  • @JonClements Thank you for your answer
    – userHG
    Nov 19 at 20:13













up vote
2
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favorite









up vote
2
down vote

favorite











I'm beginning with Python and BeautifulSoup. I want to scrape a website with BS and I don't understand my code result and the use of find and find_all. I want to get an URL in an href tag.



<div class="xBRiJc">
<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/cluster?
clp=igNLChkKEzc4NDcxODQ2MTE5MjkxMDc4NTgQCBgDEiwKJmFhZGVtby5zdXBlcmF3ZXNvbWUudHYuYXdlc29tZWFkc2RlbW8yEAEYAxgB:S:ANO1ljKZ36s&amp;gsr=Ck6KA0sKGQoTNzg0NzE4NDYxMTkyOTEwNzg1OBAIGAMSLAomYWFkZW1vLnN1cGVyYXdlc29tZS50di5hd2Vzb21lYWRzZGVtbzIQARgDGAE%3D:S:ANO1ljKKOPI"> .
<h2 class="C7Bf8e bs3Xnd">SuperAwesome LTD</h2></a></div>


Here is my python code :



    developer_link = bs.find("div",{"class":"xBRiJc"})
print(developer_link.get('href'))


Why the result of my print command 'None' and not the URL in the href tag?










share|improve this question















I'm beginning with Python and BeautifulSoup. I want to scrape a website with BS and I don't understand my code result and the use of find and find_all. I want to get an URL in an href tag.



<div class="xBRiJc">
<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/cluster?
clp=igNLChkKEzc4NDcxODQ2MTE5MjkxMDc4NTgQCBgDEiwKJmFhZGVtby5zdXBlcmF3ZXNvbWUudHYuYXdlc29tZWFkc2RlbW8yEAEYAxgB:S:ANO1ljKZ36s&amp;gsr=Ck6KA0sKGQoTNzg0NzE4NDYxMTkyOTEwNzg1OBAIGAMSLAomYWFkZW1vLnN1cGVyYXdlc29tZS50di5hd2Vzb21lYWRzZGVtbzIQARgDGAE%3D:S:ANO1ljKKOPI"> .
<h2 class="C7Bf8e bs3Xnd">SuperAwesome LTD</h2></a></div>


Here is my python code :



    developer_link = bs.find("div",{"class":"xBRiJc"})
print(developer_link.get('href'))


Why the result of my print command 'None' and not the URL in the href tag?







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  • 7




    the href attribute is in the a tag inside the div tag... not on the div tag itself...
    – Jon Clements
    Nov 19 at 19:54










  • More over these are dynamic contents generated on the fly. class='xBRiJc' will not match in the next run. Look into a module that supports rendering dynamic contents like selenium or requests-html.
    – Idlehands
    Nov 19 at 20:11












  • @JonClements Thank you for your answer
    – userHG
    Nov 19 at 20:13














  • 7




    the href attribute is in the a tag inside the div tag... not on the div tag itself...
    – Jon Clements
    Nov 19 at 19:54










  • More over these are dynamic contents generated on the fly. class='xBRiJc' will not match in the next run. Look into a module that supports rendering dynamic contents like selenium or requests-html.
    – Idlehands
    Nov 19 at 20:11












  • @JonClements Thank you for your answer
    – userHG
    Nov 19 at 20:13








7




7




the href attribute is in the a tag inside the div tag... not on the div tag itself...
– Jon Clements
Nov 19 at 19:54




the href attribute is in the a tag inside the div tag... not on the div tag itself...
– Jon Clements
Nov 19 at 19:54












More over these are dynamic contents generated on the fly. class='xBRiJc' will not match in the next run. Look into a module that supports rendering dynamic contents like selenium or requests-html.
– Idlehands
Nov 19 at 20:11






More over these are dynamic contents generated on the fly. class='xBRiJc' will not match in the next run. Look into a module that supports rendering dynamic contents like selenium or requests-html.
– Idlehands
Nov 19 at 20:11














@JonClements Thank you for your answer
– userHG
Nov 19 at 20:13




@JonClements Thank you for your answer
– userHG
Nov 19 at 20:13












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You're defining developer_link to be the <div> tag containing the link, instead of the link itself. Since the div tag itself has no "href" parameter, developer_link.get('href') will return None. So you just have to take it a step further:



>>> pagecode = """
... <div class="xBRiJc">
... ... <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/cluster?
... ... clp=igNLChkKEzc4NDcxODQ2MTE5MjkxMDc4NTgQCBgDEiwKJmFhZGVtby5zdXBlcmF3ZXNvbWUudHYuYXdlc29tZWFkc2RlbW8yEAEYAxgB:S:ANO1ljKZ36s&amp;gsr=Ck6KA0sKGQoTNzg0NzE4NDYxMTkyOTEwNzg1OBAIGAMSLAomYWFkZW1vLnN1cGVyYXdlc29tZS50di5hd2Vzb21lYWRzZGVtbzIQARgDGAE%3D:S:ANO1ljKKOPI"> .
... ... <h2 class="C7Bf8e bs3Xnd">SuperAwesome LTD</h2></a></div>
... ... """
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(pagecode, 'lxml')
>>> div = soup.find("div", class_="xBRiJc")
>>> link = div.find("a")
>>> print(link.get('href'))
https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/cluster?
... clp=igNLChkKEzc4NDcxODQ2MTE5MjkxMDc4NTgQCBgDEiwKJmFhZGVtby5zdXBlcmF3ZXNvbWUudHYuYXdlc29tZWFkc2RlbW8yEAEYAxgB:S:ANO1ljKZ36s&gsr=Ck6KA0sKGQoTNzg0NzE4NDYxMTkyOTEwNzg1OBAIGAMSLAomYWFkZW1vLnN1cGVyYXdlc29tZS50di5hd2Vzb21lYWRzZGVtbzIQARgDGAE%3D:S:ANO1ljKKOPI


Looking at this example though, I'm guessing that the div's class is something that's dynamically generated. If so, then the div's class may not be "xBRiJc" when you revisit the page, which means it's not a reliable identifier of the link. If you're just trying to get the first link whose text contains "SuperAwesome LTD", you could use some regex tricks to get the link based on just tht. But if you know your link has an H2 tag directly inside whose actual text is "SuperAwesome LTD", then you could do this:



t = soup.find('h2')
print(t.parent.get('href'))





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    Welcome, and thanks contributing this answer. FWIW that's probably a Google "xid" which is just a (proprietary) hash of an identifier like GooglePlaySomethingWidget. It should be as stable as any other class name you'd match on.
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You're defining developer_link to be the <div> tag containing the link, instead of the link itself. Since the div tag itself has no "href" parameter, developer_link.get('href') will return None. So you just have to take it a step further:



>>> pagecode = """
... <div class="xBRiJc">
... ... <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/cluster?
... ... clp=igNLChkKEzc4NDcxODQ2MTE5MjkxMDc4NTgQCBgDEiwKJmFhZGVtby5zdXBlcmF3ZXNvbWUudHYuYXdlc29tZWFkc2RlbW8yEAEYAxgB:S:ANO1ljKZ36s&amp;gsr=Ck6KA0sKGQoTNzg0NzE4NDYxMTkyOTEwNzg1OBAIGAMSLAomYWFkZW1vLnN1cGVyYXdlc29tZS50di5hd2Vzb21lYWRzZGVtbzIQARgDGAE%3D:S:ANO1ljKKOPI"> .
... ... <h2 class="C7Bf8e bs3Xnd">SuperAwesome LTD</h2></a></div>
... ... """
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(pagecode, 'lxml')
>>> div = soup.find("div", class_="xBRiJc")
>>> link = div.find("a")
>>> print(link.get('href'))
https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/cluster?
... clp=igNLChkKEzc4NDcxODQ2MTE5MjkxMDc4NTgQCBgDEiwKJmFhZGVtby5zdXBlcmF3ZXNvbWUudHYuYXdlc29tZWFkc2RlbW8yEAEYAxgB:S:ANO1ljKZ36s&gsr=Ck6KA0sKGQoTNzg0NzE4NDYxMTkyOTEwNzg1OBAIGAMSLAomYWFkZW1vLnN1cGVyYXdlc29tZS50di5hd2Vzb21lYWRzZGVtbzIQARgDGAE%3D:S:ANO1ljKKOPI


Looking at this example though, I'm guessing that the div's class is something that's dynamically generated. If so, then the div's class may not be "xBRiJc" when you revisit the page, which means it's not a reliable identifier of the link. If you're just trying to get the first link whose text contains "SuperAwesome LTD", you could use some regex tricks to get the link based on just tht. But if you know your link has an H2 tag directly inside whose actual text is "SuperAwesome LTD", then you could do this:



t = soup.find('h2')
print(t.parent.get('href'))





share|improve this answer

















  • 1




    Welcome, and thanks contributing this answer. FWIW that's probably a Google "xid" which is just a (proprietary) hash of an identifier like GooglePlaySomethingWidget. It should be as stable as any other class name you'd match on.
    – user
    Nov 19 at 21:17















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You're defining developer_link to be the <div> tag containing the link, instead of the link itself. Since the div tag itself has no "href" parameter, developer_link.get('href') will return None. So you just have to take it a step further:



>>> pagecode = """
... <div class="xBRiJc">
... ... <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/cluster?
... ... clp=igNLChkKEzc4NDcxODQ2MTE5MjkxMDc4NTgQCBgDEiwKJmFhZGVtby5zdXBlcmF3ZXNvbWUudHYuYXdlc29tZWFkc2RlbW8yEAEYAxgB:S:ANO1ljKZ36s&amp;gsr=Ck6KA0sKGQoTNzg0NzE4NDYxMTkyOTEwNzg1OBAIGAMSLAomYWFkZW1vLnN1cGVyYXdlc29tZS50di5hd2Vzb21lYWRzZGVtbzIQARgDGAE%3D:S:ANO1ljKKOPI"> .
... ... <h2 class="C7Bf8e bs3Xnd">SuperAwesome LTD</h2></a></div>
... ... """
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(pagecode, 'lxml')
>>> div = soup.find("div", class_="xBRiJc")
>>> link = div.find("a")
>>> print(link.get('href'))
https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/cluster?
... clp=igNLChkKEzc4NDcxODQ2MTE5MjkxMDc4NTgQCBgDEiwKJmFhZGVtby5zdXBlcmF3ZXNvbWUudHYuYXdlc29tZWFkc2RlbW8yEAEYAxgB:S:ANO1ljKZ36s&gsr=Ck6KA0sKGQoTNzg0NzE4NDYxMTkyOTEwNzg1OBAIGAMSLAomYWFkZW1vLnN1cGVyYXdlc29tZS50di5hd2Vzb21lYWRzZGVtbzIQARgDGAE%3D:S:ANO1ljKKOPI


Looking at this example though, I'm guessing that the div's class is something that's dynamically generated. If so, then the div's class may not be "xBRiJc" when you revisit the page, which means it's not a reliable identifier of the link. If you're just trying to get the first link whose text contains "SuperAwesome LTD", you could use some regex tricks to get the link based on just tht. But if you know your link has an H2 tag directly inside whose actual text is "SuperAwesome LTD", then you could do this:



t = soup.find('h2')
print(t.parent.get('href'))





share|improve this answer

















  • 1




    Welcome, and thanks contributing this answer. FWIW that's probably a Google "xid" which is just a (proprietary) hash of an identifier like GooglePlaySomethingWidget. It should be as stable as any other class name you'd match on.
    – user
    Nov 19 at 21:17













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1
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up vote
1
down vote









You're defining developer_link to be the <div> tag containing the link, instead of the link itself. Since the div tag itself has no "href" parameter, developer_link.get('href') will return None. So you just have to take it a step further:



>>> pagecode = """
... <div class="xBRiJc">
... ... <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/cluster?
... ... clp=igNLChkKEzc4NDcxODQ2MTE5MjkxMDc4NTgQCBgDEiwKJmFhZGVtby5zdXBlcmF3ZXNvbWUudHYuYXdlc29tZWFkc2RlbW8yEAEYAxgB:S:ANO1ljKZ36s&amp;gsr=Ck6KA0sKGQoTNzg0NzE4NDYxMTkyOTEwNzg1OBAIGAMSLAomYWFkZW1vLnN1cGVyYXdlc29tZS50di5hd2Vzb21lYWRzZGVtbzIQARgDGAE%3D:S:ANO1ljKKOPI"> .
... ... <h2 class="C7Bf8e bs3Xnd">SuperAwesome LTD</h2></a></div>
... ... """
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(pagecode, 'lxml')
>>> div = soup.find("div", class_="xBRiJc")
>>> link = div.find("a")
>>> print(link.get('href'))
https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/cluster?
... clp=igNLChkKEzc4NDcxODQ2MTE5MjkxMDc4NTgQCBgDEiwKJmFhZGVtby5zdXBlcmF3ZXNvbWUudHYuYXdlc29tZWFkc2RlbW8yEAEYAxgB:S:ANO1ljKZ36s&gsr=Ck6KA0sKGQoTNzg0NzE4NDYxMTkyOTEwNzg1OBAIGAMSLAomYWFkZW1vLnN1cGVyYXdlc29tZS50di5hd2Vzb21lYWRzZGVtbzIQARgDGAE%3D:S:ANO1ljKKOPI


Looking at this example though, I'm guessing that the div's class is something that's dynamically generated. If so, then the div's class may not be "xBRiJc" when you revisit the page, which means it's not a reliable identifier of the link. If you're just trying to get the first link whose text contains "SuperAwesome LTD", you could use some regex tricks to get the link based on just tht. But if you know your link has an H2 tag directly inside whose actual text is "SuperAwesome LTD", then you could do this:



t = soup.find('h2')
print(t.parent.get('href'))





share|improve this answer












You're defining developer_link to be the <div> tag containing the link, instead of the link itself. Since the div tag itself has no "href" parameter, developer_link.get('href') will return None. So you just have to take it a step further:



>>> pagecode = """
... <div class="xBRiJc">
... ... <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/cluster?
... ... clp=igNLChkKEzc4NDcxODQ2MTE5MjkxMDc4NTgQCBgDEiwKJmFhZGVtby5zdXBlcmF3ZXNvbWUudHYuYXdlc29tZWFkc2RlbW8yEAEYAxgB:S:ANO1ljKZ36s&amp;gsr=Ck6KA0sKGQoTNzg0NzE4NDYxMTkyOTEwNzg1OBAIGAMSLAomYWFkZW1vLnN1cGVyYXdlc29tZS50di5hd2Vzb21lYWRzZGVtbzIQARgDGAE%3D:S:ANO1ljKKOPI"> .
... ... <h2 class="C7Bf8e bs3Xnd">SuperAwesome LTD</h2></a></div>
... ... """
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(pagecode, 'lxml')
>>> div = soup.find("div", class_="xBRiJc")
>>> link = div.find("a")
>>> print(link.get('href'))
https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/cluster?
... clp=igNLChkKEzc4NDcxODQ2MTE5MjkxMDc4NTgQCBgDEiwKJmFhZGVtby5zdXBlcmF3ZXNvbWUudHYuYXdlc29tZWFkc2RlbW8yEAEYAxgB:S:ANO1ljKZ36s&gsr=Ck6KA0sKGQoTNzg0NzE4NDYxMTkyOTEwNzg1OBAIGAMSLAomYWFkZW1vLnN1cGVyYXdlc29tZS50di5hd2Vzb21lYWRzZGVtbzIQARgDGAE%3D:S:ANO1ljKKOPI


Looking at this example though, I'm guessing that the div's class is something that's dynamically generated. If so, then the div's class may not be "xBRiJc" when you revisit the page, which means it's not a reliable identifier of the link. If you're just trying to get the first link whose text contains "SuperAwesome LTD", you could use some regex tricks to get the link based on just tht. But if you know your link has an H2 tag directly inside whose actual text is "SuperAwesome LTD", then you could do this:



t = soup.find('h2')
print(t.parent.get('href'))






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    Welcome, and thanks contributing this answer. FWIW that's probably a Google "xid" which is just a (proprietary) hash of an identifier like GooglePlaySomethingWidget. It should be as stable as any other class name you'd match on.
    – user
    Nov 19 at 21:17














  • 1




    Welcome, and thanks contributing this answer. FWIW that's probably a Google "xid" which is just a (proprietary) hash of an identifier like GooglePlaySomethingWidget. It should be as stable as any other class name you'd match on.
    – user
    Nov 19 at 21:17








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Welcome, and thanks contributing this answer. FWIW that's probably a Google "xid" which is just a (proprietary) hash of an identifier like GooglePlaySomethingWidget. It should be as stable as any other class name you'd match on.
– user
Nov 19 at 21:17




Welcome, and thanks contributing this answer. FWIW that's probably a Google "xid" which is just a (proprietary) hash of an identifier like GooglePlaySomethingWidget. It should be as stable as any other class name you'd match on.
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