BeautifulSoup Findall 'list' object has no attribute 'find_all'

Question

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from pprint import pprint
import requests

url = "http://chk.tbe.taleo.net/chk01/ats/careers/searchResults.jsp?org=CDI&cws=1"

response = requests.get(url)

soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")

table_main = soup.select("table#cws-search-results")

table = table_main.find_all("tr")

for tr in table:
    job_title = tr.find_all("a")
    job_location = tr.find_all("b")

    job = {
         "job_title": job_title,
         "job_location": job_location
    }
    data.append(job)

pprint(jobs)

Answer 1

You are getting an error because soup.select("table#cws-search-results") is returns a list of Tag objects (a 1-item list in this case) rather than a single Tag object, and find_all is a method of Tag objects not of the Python list object.

Change:

table_main = soup.select("table#cws-search-results")

to:

table_main = soup.select_one("table#cws-search-results")

to get the Tag object representing the main table, and then calling find_all on that object will work as expected.