List Converts to Blank Dataframe

Question

My list xfrs , returns a blank DF when I convert it....does anyone see any issues with the code?

I'm able to append and print the list fine, but when I append, the DF transfers is blank.

url2 = 'https://247sports.com/Season/2020-Football/TransferPortalPositionRanking/'
headers = {'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.110 Safari/537.36'}



response = requests.get(url2, headers = headers)

soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')
xfrs = []
schools = []
for li in soup.findAll('li', attrs={'class':'transfer-player'}):
    xfrs.append(li.find('a').contents)
    schools.append(li.find('li', attrs={'class':'destination'}))


transfers = pd.DataFrame(xfrs, columns=['Players'])
print(transfers)

Answer 1

As mentioned, .contents returns a list of BeautifulSoup objects, so you need to use for example .text to get the name. Also take care of your selection it should be more specific.

Storing the scraped data in a dataframe try to collect it as list of dicts:

data.append({
        'Player':li.h3.text,
        'Destination':destination['alt'] if (destination:=li.select_one('img[class="logo"]')) else None
    })

Example

import requests,json
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs

url2 = 'https://247sports.com/Season/2020-Football/TransferPortalPositionRanking/'
headers = {'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.110 Safari/537.36'}

response = requests.get(url2, headers = headers)

soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')
data = []
for li in soup.find_all('li', attrs={'class':'transfer-player'}):
    data.append({
        'Player':li.h3.text,
        'Destination':destination['alt'] if (destination:=li.select_one('img[class="logo"]')) else None
    })



pd.DataFrame(data)

Output

Player	Destination
JT Daniels	Georgia
KJ Costello	Mississippi State
Jamie Newman	Georgia
...	...