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user172839
user172839

Reputation: 1075

Web scraping results in 403 Forbidden Error

I'm trying to web scrape the earnings for each company off SeekingAlpha using BeautifulSoup. However, it seems like the site is detecting that a web scraper is being used? I get a "HTTP Error 403: Forbidden"

The page I'm attempting to scrape is: https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/AMAT/earnings

Does anyone know what can be done to bypass this?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 9221

Answers (3)

reinaH
reinaH

Reputation: 553

For anyone out there using PyQuery:

from pyquery import PyQuery as pq
import requests


page = pq('https://seekingalpha.com/article/4151372-tesla-fools-media-model-s-model-x-demand', proxies={'http':'34.231.147.235:8080'})
print(page)
  • (Used proxy info from https://free-proxy-list.net/)
  • Make sure you are using the Requests library and not Urllib. Don't try and load a page with 'urlopen'.

Upvotes: 0

Ajax1234
Ajax1234

Reputation: 71471

I was able to access the site contents by using a proxy, found from here:

https://free-proxy-list.net/

Then, creating a playload using the requests module, you can scrape the site:

import requests
import re
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup
r = requests.get('https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/AMAT/earnings', proxies={'http':'50.207.31.221:80'}).text
results = re.findall('Revenue of \$[a-zA-Z0-9\.]+', r)
s = soup(r, 'lxml')
titles = list(map(lambda x:x.text, s.find_all('span', {'class':'title-period'})))
epas = list(map(lambda x:x.text, s.find_all('span', {'class':'eps'})))
deciding = list(map(lambda x:x.text, s.find_all('span', {'class':re.compile('green|red')})))
results = list(map(list, zip(titles, epas, results, epas)))

Output:

[[u'Q4: 11-16-17', u'EPS of $0.93 beat by $0.02', u'Revenue of $3.97B', u'EPS of $0.93 beat by $0.02'], [u'Q3: 08-17-17', u'EPS of $0.86 beat by $0.02', u'Revenue of $3.74B', u'EPS of $0.86 beat by $0.02'], [u'Q2: 05-18-17', u'EPS of $0.79 beat by $0.03', u'Revenue of $3.55B', u'EPS of $0.79 beat by $0.03'], [u'Q1: 02-15-17', u'EPS of $0.67 beat by $0.01', u'Revenue of $3.28B', u'EPS of $0.67 beat by $0.01'], [u'Q4: 11-17-16', u'EPS of $0.66 beat by $0.01', u'Revenue of $3.30B', u'EPS of $0.66 beat by $0.01'], [u'Q3: 08-18-16', u'EPS of $0.50 beat by $0.02', u'Revenue of $2.82B', u'EPS of $0.50 beat by $0.02'], [u'Q2: 05-19-16', u'EPS of $0.34 beat by $0.02', u'Revenue of $2.45B', u'EPS of $0.34 beat by $0.02'], [u'Q1: 02-18-16', u'EPS of $0.26 beat by $0.01', u'Revenue of $2.26B', u'EPS of $0.26 beat by $0.01'], [u'Q4: 11-12-15', u'EPS of $0.29  in-line ', u'Revenue of $2.37B', u'EPS of $0.29  in-line '], [u'Q3: 08-13-15', u'EPS of $0.33  in-line ', u'Revenue of $2.49B', u'EPS of $0.33  in-line '], [u'Q2: 05-14-15', u'EPS of $0.29 beat by $0.01', u'Revenue of $2.44B', u'EPS of $0.29 beat by $0.01'], [u'Q1: 02-11-15', u'EPS of $0.27  in-line ', u'Revenue of $2.36B', u'EPS of $0.27  in-line '], [u'Q4: 11-13-14', u'EPS of $0.27  in-line ', u'Revenue of $2.26B', u'EPS of $0.27  in-line '], [u'Q3: 08-14-14', u'EPS of $0.28 beat by $0.01', u'Revenue of $2.27B', u'EPS of $0.28 beat by $0.01'], [u'Q2: 05-15-14', u'EPS of $0.28  in-line ', u'Revenue of $2.35B', u'EPS of $0.28  in-line '], [u'Q1: 02-11-14', u'EPS of $0.23 beat by $0.01', u'Revenue of $2.19B', u'EPS of $0.23 beat by $0.01']]

Upvotes: 4

Ilija
Ilija

Reputation: 1604

You should try setting User-Agent as one of request headers. Value can be of any known browser.

Example:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36

Upvotes: 6

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