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Why is for looping not looping?

Im new to programming and cannot figure out why this wont loop. It prints and converts the first item exactly how I want. But stops after the first iteration.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import re
import json
url = 'http://books.toscrape.com/'
page = requests.get(url)
html = BeautifulSoup(page.content, 'html.parser')
section = html.find_all('ol', class_='row')
for books in section:
#Title Element
header_element = books.find("article", class_='product_pod')
title_element = header_element.img
title = title_element['alt']
#Price Element
price_element = books.find(class_='price_color')
price_str = str(price_element.text)
price = price_str[1:]
#Create JSON
final_results_json = {"Title":title, "Price":price}
final_result = json.dumps(final_results_json, sort_keys=True, indent=1)
print(title)
print(price)
print()
print(final_result)

First, clarify what you are looking for? Probably, you wish to print the title, price and final_result for every book that has been scraped from the URL books.toscrape.com. The code is working as it is written though the expectation is different. If you notice you are finding all the "ol" tags with class name = "row" and there's just one such element on the page thus, section has only one element eventually the for loop iterates just once.
How to debug it?
Check the type of section, type(section)
Print the section to know what it contains
write some print statements in for loop to understand what happens when
It isn't hard to debug this one.
You need to change:
section = html.find_all('li', class_='col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3 col-lg-3')

there is only 1 <ol> in that doc
I think you want
for book in section[0].find_all('li'):
ol means ordered list, of which there is one in this case, there are many li or list items in that ol

Web scraping with bs4 python: How to display football matchups

I'm a beginner to Python and am trying to create a program that will scrape the football/soccer schedule from skysports.com and will send it through SMS to my phone through Twilio. I've excluded the SMS code because I have that figured out, so here's the web scraping code I am getting stuck with so far:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
URL = "https://www.skysports.com/football-fixtures"
page = requests.get(URL)
results = BeautifulSoup(page.content, "html.parser")
d = defaultdict(list)
comp = results.find('h5', {"class": "fixres__header3"})
team1 = results.find('span', {"class": "matches__item-col matches__participant matches__participant--side1"})
date = results.find('span', {"class": "matches__date"})
team2 = results.find('span', {"class": "matches__item-col matches__participant matches__participant--side2"})
for ind in range(len(d)):
d['comp'].append(comp[ind].text)
d['team1'].append(team1[ind].text)
d['date'].append(date[ind].text)
d['team2'].append(team2[ind].text)

Down below should do the trick for you:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
a = requests.get('https://www.skysports.com/football-fixtures')
soup = BeautifulSoup(a.text,features="html.parser")
teams = []
for date in soup.find_all(class_="fixres__header2"): # searching in that date
for i in soup.find_all(class_="swap-text--bp30")[1:]: #skips the first one because that's a heading
teams.append(i.text)
date = soup.find(class_="fixres__header2").text
print(date)
teams = [i.strip('\n') for i in teams]
for x in range(0,len(teams),2):
print (teams[x]+" vs "+ teams[x+1])
Let me further explain what I have done:
All the football have this class name - swap-text--bp30
So we can use find_all to extract all the classes with that name.
Once we have our results we can put them into an array "teams = []" then append them in a for loop "team.append(i.text)". ".text" strips the html
Then we can get rid of "\n" in the array by stripping it and printing out each string in the array two by two.
This should be your final output:
EDIT: To scrape the title of the leagues we will do pretty much the same:
league = []
for date in soup.find_all(class_="fixres__header2"): # searching in that date
for i in soup.find_all(class_="fixres__header3"): #skips the first one because that's a heading
league.append(i.text)
Strip the array and create another one:
league = [i.strip('\n') for i in league]
final = []
Then add this final bit of code which is essentially just printing the league then the two teams over and over:
for x in range(0,len(teams),5):
final.append(teams[x]+" vs "+ teams[x+1])
for i in league:
print(i)
for i in final:
print(i)

Scraping website with BS4 // accessing class

I am tring to extract different information from websites with BeautifulSoup, such as title of the product and the price.
I do that with different urls, looping through the urls with for...in.... Here, I'll just provide a snippet without the loop.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import csv
url= 'https://www.mediamarkt.ch/fr/product/_lg-oled65gx6la-1991479.html'
html_content = requests.get(url).text
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, "lxml")
price = soup.find('meta', property="product:price:amount")
title = soup.find("div", {"class": "flix-model-name"})
title2 = soup.find('div', class_="flix-model-name")
title3 = soup.find("div", attrs={"class": "flix-model-name"})
print(price['content'])
print(title)
print(title2)
print(title3)
So from this URL https://www.mediamarkt.ch/fr/product/_lg-oled65gx6la-1991479.html I wasnt to extract the product number. the only place I find it is in the div class="flix-model-name". However, I am totally unable to reach it. I tried different ways to access it in the title, title2, title3, but I always have the output none.
I am a bit of a beginner, so I guess I am probably missing something basic... If so, please pardon me for that.
Any help is welcome! Many thanks in advance!
just for info, with each url I thought of appending the data and write them on a CSV file like that:
for url in urls:
html_content = requests.get(url).text
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, "lxml")
row=[]
try:
# title = YOUR VERY WELCOMED ANSWER
prices = soup.find('meta', property="product:price:amount")
row = (title.text+','+prices['content']+'\n')
data.append(row)
except:
pass
file = open('database.csv','w')
i = 0
while i < (len(data)):
file.write(data[i])
i +=1
file.close()
Many thanks in advance for your help!
David

Try below approach using python - requests simple, straightforward, reliable, fast and less code is required when it comes to requests. I have fetched the API URL from website itself after inspecting the network section of google chrome browser.
What exactly below script is doing:
First it will take the API URL, create the URL based on 2 dynamic parameters(product and category) and then do GET request to get the data.
After getting the data script will parse the JSON data using json.loads library.
Finally, it will iterate all over the list of products one by one and print the details which are divided in 2 categotries 'box1_ProductToProduct' and 'box2_KategorieTopseller' like Brand, Name, Product number and Unit price. Same way you can add more details by looking in to the API call.
import json
import requests
from urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning
requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings(InsecureRequestWarning)
def scrap_product_details():
PRODUCT = 'MMCH1991479' #Product number
CATEGORY = '680942' #Category number
URL = 'https://www.mediamarkt.ch/rde_server/res/MMCH/recomm/product_detail/sid/WACXyEbIf3khlu6FcHlh1B1?product=' + PRODUCT + '&category=' + CATEGORY # dynamic URL
response = requests.get(URL,verify = False) #GET request to fetch the data
result = json.loads(response.text) # Parse JSON data using json.loads
box1_ProductToProduct = result[0]['box1_ProductToProduct'] # Extracted data from API
box2_KategorieTopseller = result[1]['box2_KategorieTopseller']
for item in box1_ProductToProduct: # loop over extracted data
print('-' * 100)
print('Brand : ',item['brand'])
print('Name : ',item['name'])
print('Net Unit Price : ',item['netUnitPrice'])
print('Product Number : ',item['product_nr'])
print('-' * 100)
for item in box2_KategorieTopseller: # loop over extracted data
print('-' * 100)
print('Brand : ',item['brand'])
print('Name : ',item['name'])
print('Net Unit Price : ',item['netUnitPrice'])
print('Product Number : ',item['product_nr'])
print('-' * 100)
scrap_product_details()

What is the proper syntax for .find() in bs4?

I am trying to scrape the bitcoin price off of coinbase and cannot find the proper syntax. When I run the program (without the line with question marks) I get the block of html that I need, but I don't know how to narrow down and retrieve the price itself. Any help appreciated, thanks.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = 'https://www.coinbase.com/charts'
data = requests.get(url)
nicedata = data.text
soup = BeautifulSoup(nicedata, 'html.parser')
prettysoup = soup.prettify()
bitcoin = soup.find('h4', {'class':
'Header__StyledHeader-sc-1q6y56a-0 hZxUBM
TextElement__Spacer-sc-18l8wi5-0 hpeTzd'})
price = bitcoin.find('???')
print(price)
The attached image contains the html

To get text from item:
price = bitcoin.text
But this page has many items <h4> with this class but find() gets only first one and it has text Bitcoin, not price from your image. You may need find_all() to get list with all items and then you can use index [index] or slicing [start:end] to get some items, or you can use for-loop to work with every item on list.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = 'https://www.coinbase.com/charts'
r = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'html.parser')
all_h4 = soup.find_all('h4', {'class': 'Header__StyledHeader-sc-1q6y56a-0 hZxUBM TextElement__Spacer-sc-18l8wi5-0 hpeTzd'})
for h4 in all_h4:
print(h4.text)
It can be easier to work with data if you keep it in list of list or array or DataFrame. But to create list of lists it would be easier to find rows <tr> and inside every row search <h4>
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = 'https://www.coinbase.com/charts'
r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'html.parser')
all_tr = soup.find_all('tr')
data = []
for tr in all_tr:
row = []
for h4 in tr.find_all('h4'):
row.append(h4.text)
if row: # skip empty row
data.append(row)
for row in data:
print(row)
It doesn't need class to get all h4.
BTW: This page uses JavaScript to append new rows when you scroll page but requests and BeautifulSoup can't run JavaScript - so if you will need all rows then you may need Selenium to control web browser which runs JavaScript

How to only scrape the first item in a row using Beautiful Soup

I am currently running the following python script:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
origin= ["USD","GBP","EUR"]
i=0
while i < len(origin):
page = requests.get("https://www.x-rates.com/table/?from="+origin[i]+"&amount=1")
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, "html.parser")
tables = soup.findChildren('table')
my_table = tables[0]
rows = my_table.findChildren(['td'])
i = i +1
for rows in rows:
cells = rows.findChildren('a')
for cell in cells:
value = cell.string
print(value)
To scrape data from this HTML:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/DkX83.png
The problem I have is that I'm struggling to only scrape the first column without scraping the second one as well because they are both under tags and in the same table row as each other. The href is the only thing which differentiates between the two tags and I have tried filtering using this but it doesn't seem to work and returns a blank value. Also when i try to sort the data manually the output is amended vertically and not horizontally, I am new to coding so any help would be appreciated :)

There is another way you might wanna try as well to achieve the same:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
keywords = ["USD","GBP","EUR"]
for keyword in keywords:
page = requests.get("https://www.x-rates.com/table/?from={}&amount=1".format(keyword))
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, "html.parser")
for items in soup.select_one(".ratesTable tbody").find_all("tr"):
data = [item.text for item in items.find_all("td")[1:2]]
print(data)

It is easier to follow what happens when you print every item you got from the top e.g. in this case from table item. The idea is to go one by one so you can follow.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
origin= ["USD","GBP","EUR"]
i=0
while i < len(origin):
page = requests.get("https://www.x-rates.com/table/?from="+origin[i]+"&amount=1")
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, "html.parser")
tables = soup.findChildren('table')
my_table = tables[0]
i = i +1
rows = my_table.findChildren('tr')
for row in rows:
cells = row.findAll('td',class_='rtRates')
if len(cells) > 0:
first_item = cells[0].find('a')
value = first_item.string
print(value)