i'm trying to scrape the website that contains loading screens. when i browse the website it shows loading.. for a sec and then it loads up. But the problem is when i try to scrape it using scrapy it gives me nothing (probably because of that loading). can i solve the problem using scrapy or should i use some other tools?
here's the link to the website if you wanna see https://www.graana.com/project/601/lotus-lake-towers
As it is sending a GET request to get information about the property , you should mimic the same in your code. (You can observe the GET call under console -> Network -> XHR )
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import scrapy
class GranaSpider(scrapy.Spider):
name = 'grana'
allowed_domains = 'www.graana.com'
start_urls = ['https://www.graana.com/api/area/slug/601']
def parse(self, response):
# for url in allurlList:
scrapy.http.Request(response.url, method='GET' , dont_filter=False)
print(response.body)
#convert json response to array and save to your storage system
Output is in json format, convert it to your convenience.
I know this question is old and already answered but I wanted to share my solution after encountering a similar problem. The accepted answer was not helpful to me because I was not using scrapy.
I wanted to scrape a website that first displays a loading page and then displays the actual page content.
Here's an example of such a website :
The requests library will not work for such websites. In my experience, request.get(URL, headers=HEADERS) simply times out .
Solution
Use Selenium.
First you need to know approximately how long the loading page animation lasts. In the above website, it takes around 3 seconds.
The trick is to simply sleep your program for the duration of the animation after navigating to the website with driver.get(URL).
By the time the program finishes sleeping, the loading animation will be over so we can safely extract the HTML of the actual page content using driver.page_source.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
import time
# the following options are only for setup purposes
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)
URL = "https://www.myjob.mu/ShowResults.aspx?Keywords=&Location=&Category=39&Recruiter=Company&SortBy=MostRecent"
driver.get(URL)
time.sleep(5) # any number > 3 should work fine
html = driver.page_source
print(html)
Beautifulsoup library can then be used for parsing the html.
Related
Is it possible to send a get request to a webdriver using selenium?
I want to scrape a website with an infinite page and want to scrape a substantial amount of the objects on the website. For this I use Selenium to open the website in a webdriver and scroll down the page until enough objects on the page are visible.
However, I'd like to scrape the information on the page with BeautifulSoup since this is the most effective way in this case. If the get request is send in the normal way (see the code) the response only holds the first objects and not the objects from the scrolled-down page (which makes sence).
But is there any way to send a get request to an open webdriver?
from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
# Opening the website in the webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
driver.get(url)
# Loop for scrolling
scroll_start = 0
for i in range(100):
scroll_end = scroll_start + 1080
driver.execute_script(f'window.scrollTo({scroll_start}, {scroll_end})')
time.sleep(2)
scroll_start = scroll_end
# The get request
response = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'lxml')
You should probably find out what is the endpoint that the website is using to get the data for the infinite scrolling.
Go to the website, open the Dev Tools, open the Network tab and find the HTTP request that is asking for the content you're seeking, then MAYBE you can use it too. Just know that there are a lot of variables like, are they using some sort of authorization for their APIs? Are the APIs returning JSON, XML, HTML, ...? Also, I am not sure if this is fair-use.
I am trying web scraping with BeautifulSoup for getting data of BTC-USDT from biance. Actually I am getting what I want but the value is changing in every second in website,but when I am trying to print it to my console it prints me same value and it change rarely. Basically, my data are the same every time when I try to get it, but on the website, it changes every time and I can't get that changing data.
What can I do?
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import time
while(True):
url='https://www.binance.com/tr/trade/BTC_USDT'
HTML=requests.get(url)
html_content=HTML.content
soup=BeautifulSoup(HTML.text,'html.parser')
paper=str((soup.find('title',attrs={'data-shuvi-head':'true'})))
print(paper)
time.sleep(5)
This page uses JavaScript to update data but BeautifulSoup can't run JavaScript. You use need Selenium to control real web browser which can run JavaScript.
from selenium import webdriver
import time
url = 'https://www.binance.com/tr/trade/BTC_USDT' # PEP8: spaces around `=`
#driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get(url)
while True: # PEP8: no need `()`
try:
#print(driver.title)
print(driver.title.split(' ')[0].strip())
except Exception as ex:
print('Exception:', ex)
time.sleep(5)
Eventually you can check in DevTools (tab Network) in Chrome/Firefox to see url used by JavaScript to get new data - and then you can try to use it with requests. Because JavaScript usually send data as JSON so you will no need BeautifulSoup but module json.
But first check if you can get it with official Binance API
PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code
EDIT
Example with Binance API: Current Average Price
import requests
import time
url = 'https://api.binance.com/api/v3/avgPrice?symbol=BTCUSDT'
while True:
response = requests.get(url)
data = response.json()
print(data['price'])
time.sleep(5)
My issue I'm having is that I want to grab the related links from this page: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
If I Inspect Element in Chrome or Safari I can see the <div id="outer_related_articles"> and all the articles listed. If I attempt to grab it with BeautifulSoup it will grab the page and everything except the related articles.
Here's what I have so far:
import urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = "http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538"
response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.read())
print soup
This section is loaded using Javascript. Disable your browser's Javascript to see how BeautifulSoup "sees" the page.
From here you have two options:
Use a headless browser, that will execute the Javascript. See this questions about this: Headless Browser for Python (Javascript support REQUIRED!)
Try and figure out how the apple site loads the content and simulate it - it probably does an AJAX call to some address.
After some digging it seems it does a request to this address (http://km.support.apple.com/kb/index?page=kmdata&requestid=2&query=iOS%3A%20Device%20not%20recognized%20in%20iTunes%20for%20Windows&locale=en_US&src=support_site.related_articles.TS1538&excludeids=TS1538&callback=KmLoader.receiveSuccess) and uses JSONP to load the results with KmLoader.receiveSuccess being the name of the receiving function. Use Firebug of Chrome dev tools to inspect the page in more detail.
I ran into a similar problem, the html contents that are created dynamically may not be captured by BeautifulSoup. A very basic solution for this is to make it wait for few seconds before capturing the contents, or use Selenium instead that has the functionality to wait for an element and then proceed. So for the former, this worked for me:
import time
# .... your initial bs4 code here
time.sleep(5) #5 seconds, it worked with 1 second too
html_source = browser.page_source
# .... do whatever you want to do with bs4
I'm practicing web scraping with Python atm and I found a problem, I wanted to scrape one website that has a list of anime that I watched before but when I try to scrape it (via requests or selenium) it only gets around 30 of 110 anime names from the page.
Here is my code with selenium:
from selenium import webdriver
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get("https://anilist.co/user/Agusmaris/animelist/Completed")
data = BeautifulSoup(browser.page_source, 'lxml')
for title in data.find_all(class_="title"):
print(title.getText())
And when I run it, the page source only shows up until an anime called 'Golden time' when there are like 70 or more left that are in the page.
Thanks
Edit: Code that works now thanks to 'supputuri':
from selenium import webdriver
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import time
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://anilist.co/user/Agusmaris/animelist/Completed")
time.sleep(3)
footer = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("div.footer")
preY = 0
print(str(footer))
while footer.rect['y'] != preY:
preY = footer.rect['y']
footer.location_once_scrolled_into_view
print('loading')
html = driver.page_source
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'lxml')
for title in soup.find_all(class_="title"):
print(title.getText())
driver.close()
driver.quit()
ret = input()
Here is the solution.
Make sure to add import time
driver.get("https://anilist.co/user/Agusmaris/animelist/Completed")
time.sleep(3)
footer =driver.find_element_by_css_selector("div.footer")
preY =0
while footer.rect['y']!=preY:
preY = footer.rect['y']
footer.location_once_scrolled_into_view
time.sleep(1)
print(str(driver.page_source))
This will iterate until all the anime is loaded and then gets the page source.
Let us know if this was helpful.
So, this is the jist of what I get when I load the page source:
AniListwindow.al_token = 'E1lPa1kzYco5hbdwT3GAMg3OG0rj47Gy5kF0PUmH';Sorry, AniList requires Javascript.Please enable Javascript or http://outdatedbrowser.com>upgrade to a modern web browser.Sorry, AniList requires a modern browser.Please http://outdatedbrowser.com>upgrade to a newer web browser.
Since I know damn well that Javascript is enabled and my Chrome version is fully up to date, and the URL listed takes one to a nonsecure website to "download" a new version of your browser, I think this is a spam site. Not sure if you were aware of that when posting so I won't flag as such, but I wanted you and others who come across this to be aware.
I want to scrape, e.g., the title of the first 200 questions under the web page https://www.quora.com/topic/Stack-Overflow-4/all_questions. And I tried the following code:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = "https://www.quora.com/topic/Stack-Overflow-4/all_questions"
print("url")
print(url)
r = requests.get(url) # HTTP request
print("r")
print(r)
html_doc = r.text # Extracts the html
print("html_doc")
print(html_doc)
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'lxml') # Create a BeautifulSoup object
print("soup")
print(soup)
It gave me a text https://pastebin.com/9dSPzAyX. If we search href='/, we can see that the html does contain title of some questions. However, the problem is that the number is not enough; actually on the web page, a user needs to manually scroll down to trigger extra load.
Does anyone know how I could mimic "scrolling down" by the program to load more content of the page?
Infinite scrolls on a webpage is based on the Javascript functionality. Therefore, to find out what URL we need to access and what parameters to use, we need to either thoroughly study the JS code working inside the page or, and preferably, examine the requests that the browser does when you scroll down the page. We can study requests using the Developer Tools.
See example for quora
the more you scroll down, the more requests generated. so now your requests will be done to that url instead of normal url but keep in mind to send correct headers and playload.
other easier solution will be by using selenium
Couldn't find a response using request. But you can use Selenium. First printed out the number of questions at first load, then send the End key to mimic scrolling down. You can see number of questions went from 20 to 40 after sending the End key.
I used driver.implicitly wait for 5 seconds before loading the DOM again in case the script load to fast before the DOM was loaded. You can improve by using EC with selenium.
The page loads 20 questions per scroll. So if you are looking to scrape 100 questions, then you need to send the End key 5 times.
To use the code below you need to install chromedriver.
http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
CHROMEDRIVER_PATH = ""
CHROME_PATH = ""
WINDOW_SIZE = "1920,1080"
chrome_options = Options()
# chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
chrome_options.add_argument("--window-size=%s" % WINDOW_SIZE)
chrome_options.binary_location = CHROME_PATH
prefs = {'profile.managed_default_content_settings.images':2}
chrome_options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs)
url = "https://www.quora.com/topic/Stack-Overflow-4/all_questions"
def scrape(url, times):
if not url.startswith('http'):
raise Exception('URLs need to start with "http"')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(
executable_path=CHROMEDRIVER_PATH,
chrome_options=chrome_options
)
driver.get(url)
counter = 1
while counter <= times:
q_list = driver.find_element_by_class_name('TopicAllQuestionsList')
questions = [x for x in q_list.find_elements_by_xpath('//div[#class="pagedlist_item"]')]
q_len = len(questions)
print(q_len)
html = driver.find_element_by_tag_name('html')
html.send_keys(Keys.END)
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 5)
time.sleep(5)
questions2 = [x for x in q_list.find_elements_by_xpath('//div[#class="pagedlist_item"]')]
print(len(questions2))
counter += 1
driver.close()
if __name__ == '__main__':
scrape(url, 5)
I recommend using selenium rather than bs.
selenium can control browser and parsing. like scroll down, click button, etc…
this example is for scroll down for get all liker user in instagram.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/54882356/5611675
If the content only loads on "scrolling down", this probably means that the page is using Javascript to dynamically load the content.
You can try using a web client such as PhantomJS to load the page and execute the javascript in it, and simulate the scroll by injecting some JS such as document.body.scrollTop = sY; (Simulate scroll event using Javascript).