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Christian
Christian

Reputation: 7

How to loop through each page of website for web scraping with BeautifulSoup

I am scraping job posting data from a website using BeautifulSoup. I have working code that does what I need, but it only scrapes the first page of job postings. I am having trouble figuring out how to iteratively update the url to scrape each page. I am new to Python and have looked at a few different solutions to similar questions, but have not figured out how to apply them to my particular url. I think I need to iteratively update the url or somehow click the next button and then loop my existing code through each page. I appreciate any solutions.

url: https://jobs.utcaerospacesystems.com/search-jobs

Upvotes: 0

Views: 658

Answers (1)

Danielle M.
Danielle M.

Reputation: 3672

First, BeautifulSoup doesn't have anything to do with GETing web pages - you get the webpage yourself, then feed it to bs4 for processing.

The problem with the page you linked is that it's javascript - it only renders correctly in a browser (or any other javascript VM).

@Fabricator is on the right track - you'll need to watch the developer console and see what the ajax requests the js is sending to the server. In this case, also take a look at the query string params, which include a param called CurrentPage - that's probably the one you want to focus on.

Upvotes: 0

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