AttributeError：'NoneType'对象没有属性'text'？

Question

I'm fairly new to python and only have a couple hours of experience. I've been creating a script that scrapes the Air Quality readings for my country directly.

I am trying to run this command within my script:

psi = soup.find("div", {"class": "panel-stats-value-content"}).text

Though when I run it, it responds with:

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'

How can I fix this? So that .text will work?

Answer 1

This error is raised because BeautifulSoup.find() is unable to find any div elements with the class of panel-stats-value-content in the document, so returns NoneType .

When you try and call a method on a NoneType , it will raise the above error, but with the method whatever you called on it.

To fix this you need to make sure that the div element's class is correct.