Python BeautifulSoup - find table by id returning 'none'

For some reason I can't find a table by id or select the table by id.. I've been referring to the docs for BS and from what I can tell it should be working..

Below is an example of the code to try and select the table by the id "per_game", content.find(id='per_game') doesn't work for me either.

I've been referring to the find and CSS selector part of the docs, here: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#find

import requests

import csv

import calendar

from datetime import date, datetime, timedelta

from collections import OrderedDict, defaultdict

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup



season = str(date.today().year + 1)

month = calendar.month_name[date.today().month].lower()



teamUrl = "https://basketball-reference.com/teams/"



urls       =    [teamUrl + 'ATL/' + season +'.html'] # Atlanta Hawks

                 # teamUrl + 'BOS/' + season +'.html', # Boston Celtics

                 # teamUrl + 'BKN/' + season +'.html', # Brooklyn Nets

                 # teamUrl + 'CHA/' + season +'.html', # Charlotte Hornets



for url in urls:

    page = requests.get(url, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})

    content = soup(page.content, 'html.parser')

    table = content.select("#per_game")

    print(table)

Many thanks,
OM.

asked Nov 15 '18 at 1:41

Shaun

285

That content is built client-side using JavaScript, so your code won't see it.
– Chris
Nov 15 '18 at 1:46

Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/43120445/…
– Chris
Nov 15 '18 at 1:47

Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/8049520/…
– Chris
Nov 15 '18 at 1:48

You need to use some module which can run JavaScript, then you can load all the data. btw i ever answer a question like this one (same website but he want to scrape the records of each player)
– kcorlidy
Nov 15 '18 at 2:59

Possible duplicate of BS4 Not Locating Element in Python
– kcorlidy
Nov 15 '18 at 3:03

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For some reason I can't find a table by id or select the table by id.. I've been referring to the docs for BS and from what I can tell it should be working..

Below is an example of the code to try and select the table by the id "per_game", content.find(id='per_game') doesn't work for me either.

I've been referring to the find and CSS selector part of the docs, here: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#find

import requests

import csv

import calendar

from datetime import date, datetime, timedelta

from collections import OrderedDict, defaultdict

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup



season = str(date.today().year + 1)

month = calendar.month_name[date.today().month].lower()



teamUrl = "https://basketball-reference.com/teams/"



urls       =    [teamUrl + 'ATL/' + season +'.html'] # Atlanta Hawks

                 # teamUrl + 'BOS/' + season +'.html', # Boston Celtics

                 # teamUrl + 'BKN/' + season +'.html', # Brooklyn Nets

                 # teamUrl + 'CHA/' + season +'.html', # Charlotte Hornets



for url in urls:

    page = requests.get(url, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})

    content = soup(page.content, 'html.parser')

    table = content.select("#per_game")

    print(table)

Many thanks,
OM.

asked Nov 15 '18 at 1:41

Shaun

285

That content is built client-side using JavaScript, so your code won't see it.
– Chris
Nov 15 '18 at 1:46

Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/43120445/…
– Chris
Nov 15 '18 at 1:47

Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/8049520/…
– Chris
Nov 15 '18 at 1:48

You need to use some module which can run JavaScript, then you can load all the data. btw i ever answer a question like this one (same website but he want to scrape the records of each player)
– kcorlidy
Nov 15 '18 at 2:59

Possible duplicate of BS4 Not Locating Element in Python
– kcorlidy
Nov 15 '18 at 3:03

add a comment |

For some reason I can't find a table by id or select the table by id.. I've been referring to the docs for BS and from what I can tell it should be working..

Below is an example of the code to try and select the table by the id "per_game", content.find(id='per_game') doesn't work for me either.

I've been referring to the find and CSS selector part of the docs, here: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#find

import requests

import csv

import calendar

from datetime import date, datetime, timedelta

from collections import OrderedDict, defaultdict

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup



season = str(date.today().year + 1)

month = calendar.month_name[date.today().month].lower()



teamUrl = "https://basketball-reference.com/teams/"



urls       =    [teamUrl + 'ATL/' + season +'.html'] # Atlanta Hawks

                 # teamUrl + 'BOS/' + season +'.html', # Boston Celtics

                 # teamUrl + 'BKN/' + season +'.html', # Brooklyn Nets

                 # teamUrl + 'CHA/' + season +'.html', # Charlotte Hornets



for url in urls:

    page = requests.get(url, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})

    content = soup(page.content, 'html.parser')

    table = content.select("#per_game")

    print(table)

Many thanks,
OM.

asked Nov 15 '18 at 1:41

Shaun

285

For some reason I can't find a table by id or select the table by id.. I've been referring to the docs for BS and from what I can tell it should be working..

Below is an example of the code to try and select the table by the id "per_game", content.find(id='per_game') doesn't work for me either.

I've been referring to the find and CSS selector part of the docs, here: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#find

import requests

import csv

import calendar

from datetime import date, datetime, timedelta

from collections import OrderedDict, defaultdict

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup



season = str(date.today().year + 1)

month = calendar.month_name[date.today().month].lower()



teamUrl = "https://basketball-reference.com/teams/"



urls       =    [teamUrl + 'ATL/' + season +'.html'] # Atlanta Hawks

                 # teamUrl + 'BOS/' + season +'.html', # Boston Celtics

                 # teamUrl + 'BKN/' + season +'.html', # Brooklyn Nets

                 # teamUrl + 'CHA/' + season +'.html', # Charlotte Hornets



for url in urls:

    page = requests.get(url, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})

    content = soup(page.content, 'html.parser')

    table = content.select("#per_game")

    print(table)

Many thanks,
OM.

python beautifulsoup

asked Nov 15 '18 at 1:41

Shaun

285

asked Nov 15 '18 at 1:41

Shaun

285

asked Nov 15 '18 at 1:41

Shaun

285

asked Nov 15 '18 at 1:41

Shaun

285

asked Nov 15 '18 at 1:41

Shaun

285

That content is built client-side using JavaScript, so your code won't see it.
– Chris
Nov 15 '18 at 1:46

Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/43120445/…
– Chris
Nov 15 '18 at 1:47

Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/8049520/…
– Chris
Nov 15 '18 at 1:48

You need to use some module which can run JavaScript, then you can load all the data. btw i ever answer a question like this one (same website but he want to scrape the records of each player)
– kcorlidy
Nov 15 '18 at 2:59

Possible duplicate of BS4 Not Locating Element in Python
– kcorlidy
Nov 15 '18 at 3:03

add a comment |

That content is built client-side using JavaScript, so your code won't see it.
– Chris
Nov 15 '18 at 1:46

Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/43120445/…
– Chris
Nov 15 '18 at 1:47

Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/8049520/…
– Chris
Nov 15 '18 at 1:48

You need to use some module which can run JavaScript, then you can load all the data. btw i ever answer a question like this one (same website but he want to scrape the records of each player)
– kcorlidy
Nov 15 '18 at 2:59

Possible duplicate of BS4 Not Locating Element in Python
– kcorlidy
Nov 15 '18 at 3:03

That content is built client-side using JavaScript, so your code won't see it.
– Chris
Nov 15 '18 at 1:46

Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/43120445/…
– Chris
Nov 15 '18 at 1:47

Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/8049520/…
– Chris
Nov 15 '18 at 1:48

You need to use some module which can run JavaScript, then you can load all the data. btw i ever answer a question like this one (same website but he want to scrape the records of each player)
– kcorlidy
Nov 15 '18 at 2:59

Possible duplicate of BS4 Not Locating Element in Python
– kcorlidy
Nov 15 '18 at 3:03

add a comment |

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this is not Ajax, just remove comment from the html

page = requests.get(url, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})

html_doc = page.text.replace('<!--', '').replace('-->', '')

content = soup(html_doc, 'html.parser')

answered Nov 15 '18 at 2:02

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Awesome, thanks @ewwink!
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this is not Ajax, just remove comment from the html

page = requests.get(url, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})

html_doc = page.text.replace('<!--', '').replace('-->', '')

content = soup(html_doc, 'html.parser')

answered Nov 15 '18 at 2:02

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Awesome, thanks @ewwink!
– Shaun
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this is not Ajax, just remove comment from the html

page = requests.get(url, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})

html_doc = page.text.replace('<!--', '').replace('-->', '')

content = soup(html_doc, 'html.parser')

answered Nov 15 '18 at 2:02

ewwink

10.9k22236

Awesome, thanks @ewwink!
– Shaun
Nov 15 '18 at 3:16

add a comment |

this is not Ajax, just remove comment from the html

page = requests.get(url, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})

html_doc = page.text.replace('<!--', '').replace('-->', '')

content = soup(html_doc, 'html.parser')

answered Nov 15 '18 at 2:02

ewwink

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this is not Ajax, just remove comment from the html

page = requests.get(url, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})

html_doc = page.text.replace('<!--', '').replace('-->', '')

content = soup(html_doc, 'html.parser')

answered Nov 15 '18 at 2:02

ewwink

10.9k22236

answered Nov 15 '18 at 2:02

ewwink

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answered Nov 15 '18 at 2:02

ewwink

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answered Nov 15 '18 at 2:02

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Awesome, thanks @ewwink!
– Shaun
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Awesome, thanks @ewwink!
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Awesome, thanks @ewwink!
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