Beautiful soup scraping with selenium
Question
I'm learning how to scrape using Beautiful soup with selenium and I found a website that has multiple tables and found table tags (first time dealing with them). I'm learning how to try to scrape those texts from each table and append each element to respected list. First im trying to scrape the first table, and the rest I want to do on my own. But I cannot access the tag for some reason.
I also incorporated selenium to access the sites, because when I copy the link to the site onto another tab, the list of tables disappears, for some reason.
My code so far:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import pandas as pd
import re
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
PATH = "C:\Program Files (x86)\chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
targetSite = "https://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/events.php"
driver.get(targetSite)
select_event = Select(driver.find_element_by_name('subs'))
select_event.select_by_value('All')
select_loc = Select(driver.find_element_by_name('loc'))
select_loc.select_by_value("All")
driver.find_element_by_name("submit").click()
targetSite = "https://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/viewevents.php"
event_title = []
name = []
address = []
city = []
state = []
zipCode = []
location = []
webSite = []
fee = []
event_dates = []
opening_dates = []
description = []
try:
page = requests.get(targetSite )
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.text, 'html.parser')
items = soup.find_all('table', {"class":"popdetail"})
for i in items:
event_title.append(item.find('b', {'class': "text"})).text.strip()
name.append(item.find('td', {'class': "text"})).text.strip()
address.append(item.find('td', {'class': "text"})).text.strip()
city.append(item.find('td', {'class': "text"})).text.strip()
state.append(item.find('td', {'class': "text"})).text.strip()
zipCode.append(item.find('td', {'class': "text"})).text.strip()
Can someone let me know if I am doing this correctly, This is my first time dealing with site's urls elements disappear when copied onto a new tab and/or window
So far, I am unable to append any information to each list.
1 answers
solution1
2 ACCPTED 2020-08-25 15:30:34
One issue is with the for loop.
you have for i in items: , but then you are calling item instead of i .
And secondly, if you are using selenium to render the page, then you should probably use selenium to get the html. They also have some embedded tables within tables, so it's not as straight forward as iterating through the <table> tags. What I ended up doing was having pandas read in the tables (returns a list of dataframes), then iterating through those as there is a pattern of how the dataframes are constructed.
import pandas as pd
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
PATH = "C:\Program Files (x86)\chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
targetSite = "https://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/events.php"
driver.get(targetSite)
select_event = Select(driver.find_element_by_name('subs'))
select_event.select_by_value('All')
select_loc = Select(driver.find_element_by_name('loc'))
select_loc.select_by_value("All")
driver.find_element_by_name("submit").click()
targetSite = "https://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/viewevents.php"
event_title = []
name = []
address = []
city = []
state = []
zipCode = []
location = []
webSite = []
fee = []
event_dates = []
opening_dates = []
description = []
dfs = pd.read_html(driver.page_source)
driver.close
for idx, table in enumerate(dfs):
if table.iloc[0,0] == 'Event Title':
event_title.append(table.iloc[-1,0])
tempA = dfs[idx+1]
tempA.index = tempA[0]
tempB = dfs[idx+4]
tempB.index = tempB[0]
tempC = dfs[idx+5]
tempC.index = tempC[0]
name.append(tempA.loc['Name',1])
address.append(tempA.loc['Address',1])
city.append(tempA.loc['City',1])
state.append(tempA.loc['State',1])
zipCode.append(tempA.loc['Zip',1])
location.append(tempA.loc['Location',1])
webSite.append(tempA.loc['Web Site',1])
fee.append(tempB.loc['Fee',1])
event_dates.append(tempB.loc['Dates',1])
opening_dates.append(tempB.loc['Opening Days',1])
description.append(tempC.loc['Event Description',1])
df = pd.DataFrame({'event_title':event_title,
'name':name,
'address':address,
'city':city,
'state':state,
'zipCode':zipCode,
'location':location,
'webSite':webSite,
'fee':fee,
'event_dates':event_dates,
'opening_dates':opening_dates,
'description':description})
Output:
print (df.to_string())
event_title name address city state zipCode location webSite fee event_dates opening_dates description
0 The San Diego Museum of Art Welcomes a Special... San Diego Museum of Art 1450 El Prado, Balboa Park San Diego CA 92101 Central San Diego https://www.sdmart.org/ NaN Starts On 6-18-2020 Ends On 1-10-2021 Opens virtually on June 18. The work will beco... The San Diego Museum of Art is launching its f...
1 New Exhibit: Miller Dairy Remembered Lemon Grove Historical Society 3185 Olive Street, Treganza Heritage Park Lemon Grove CA 91945 Central San Diego http://www.lghistorical.org Children 12 and under free and must be accompa... Starts On 6-27-2020 Ends On 12-4-2020 Exhibit on view Saturdays 11 am to 2 pm; close... From 1926 there were cows smack in the midst o...
2 Gizmos and Shivelight Distinction Gallery 317 E. Grand Ave Escondido CA 92025 North County Inland http://www.distinctionart.com NaN Starts On 7-14-2020 Ends On 9-5-2020 08/08/20 - 09/05/20 Distinction Gallery is proud to present our so...
3 Virtual Opening - July Exhibitions Vision Art Museum 2825 Dewey Rd. Suite 100 San Diego CA 92106 Central San Diego http://www.visionsartmuseum.org Free Starts On 7-18-2020 Ends On 10-4-2020 NaN Join Visions Art Museum for a virtual exhibiti...
4 Laying it Bare: The Art of Walter Redondo and ... Fresh Paint Gallery 1020-B Prospect Street La Jolla CA 92037 Central San Diego http://freshpaintgallery.com/ NaN Starts On 8-1-2020 Ends On 9-27-2020 Tuesday through Sunday. Mondays closed. A two-person exhibit of new abstract expressio...
5 Online oil painting lessons with Concetta Antico NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN Virtual http://concettaantico.com/live-online-oil-pain... NaN Starts On 8-10-2020 Ends On 8-31-2020 NaN Anyone can learn to paint like the masters! Ov...
6 MOMENTUM: A Creative Industry Symposium Vanguard Culture Via Zoom San Diego California 92101 Virtual https://www.eventbrite.com/e/momentum-a-creati... $10 suggested donation Starts On 8-17-2020 Ends On 9-7-2020 NaN MOMENTUM: A Creative Industry Symposium Monday...
7 Virtual Locals Invitational Show Art & Frames of Coronado 936 ORANGE AVE Coronado CA 92118 0 https://www.artsteps.com/view/5eed0ad62cd0d65b... free Starts On 8-21-2020 Ends On 8-1-2021 NaN Art and Frames of Coronado invites you to our ...
8 HERE & Now R.B. Stevenson Gallery 7661 Girard Avenue, Suite 101 La Jolla California 92037 Central San Diego http://www.rbstevensongallery.com Free Starts On 8-22-2020 Ends On 9-25-2020 Tuesday through Saturday R.B.Stevenson Gallery is pleased to announce t...
9 Art Unites Learning: Normal 2.0 Art Unites NaN San Diego NaN 92116 Central San Diego https://www.facebook.com/events/956878098104971 Free Starts On 8-25-2020 Ends On 8-25-2020 NaN Please join us on Tuesday, August 25th as we: ...
10 Image Quest Sojourn; Visual Journaling for Per... Pamela Underwood Studios Virtual NaN NaN NaN Virtual http://www.pamelaunderwood.com/event/new-onlin... $595.00 Starts On 8-26-2020 Ends On 11-11-2020 NaN Create a personal Image Quest resource journal...
11 Behind The Exhibition: Southern California Con... Oceanside Museum of Art 704 Pier View Way Oceanside California 92054 Virtual https://oma-online.org/events/behind-the-exhib... No fee required. Donations recommended. Starts On 8-27-2020 Ends On 8-27-2020 NaN Join curator Beth Smith and exhibitions manage...
12 Lay it on Thick, a Virtual Art Exhibition San Diego Watercolor Society 2825 Dewey Rd Bldg #202 San Diego California 92106 0 https://www.sdws.org NaN Starts On 8-30-2020 Ends On 9-26-2020 NaN The San Diego Watercolor Society proudly prese...
13 The Forum: Marketing & Branding for Creatives Vanguard Culture Via Zoom San Diego CA 92101 South San Diego http://vanguardculture.com/ $5 suggested donation Starts On 9-1-2020 Ends On 9-1-2020 NaN Attention creative industry professionals! Joi...
14 Write or Die Solo Exhibition You Belong Here 3619 EL CAJON BLVD San Diego CA 92104 Central San Diego http://www.youbelongsd.com/upcoming-events/wri... $10 donation to benefit You Belong Here Starts On 9-4-2020 Ends On 9-6-2020 NaN Write or Die is an immersive installation and ...
15 SDVAN presents Art San Diego at Bread and Salt San Diego Visual Arts Network 1955 Julian Avenue San Digo CA 92113 Central San Diego http://www.sdvisualarts.net and https://www.br... Free Starts On 9-5-2020 Ends On 10-24-2020 NaN We are pleased to announce the four artist rec...
16 The Coming of Treganza Heritage Park Lemon Grove Historical Society 3185 Olive Street Lemon Grove CA 91945 Central San Diego http://www.lghistorical.org Free for all ages Starts On 9-10-2020 Ends On 9-10-2020 The park is open daily, 8 am to 8 pm. Covid 19... Lemon Grove\'s central city park will be renam...
17 Online oil painting course | 4 weeks NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN Virtual http://concettaantico.com/live-online-oil-pain... NaN Starts On 9-14-2020 Ends On 10-5-2020 NaN Over 4 weekly Zoom lessons, learn the techniqu...
18 Online oil painting course | 4 weeks NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN Virtual http://concettaantico.com/live-online-oil-pain... NaN Starts On 10-12-2020 Ends On 11-2-2020 NaN Over 4 weekly Zoom lessons, learn the techniqu...
19 36th Annual Mission Fed ArtWalk Mission Fed ArtWalk Ash Street San Diego California 92101 Central San Diego www.missionfedartwalk.org Free Starts On 11-7-2020 Ends On 11-8-2020 Sat and Sun Nov 7 and 8 Mission Fed ArtWalk returns to San Diego’s Lit...
20 Mingei Pop Up Workshop: My Daruma Doll New Childrens Museum 200 West Island Avenue San Diego California 92101 Central San Diego http://thinkplaycreate.org/ Free with admission Starts On 11-13-2020 Ends On 11-13-2020 NaN Join Mingei International Museum at The New Ch...
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