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Ryan Oh
Ryan Oh

Reputation: 657

Some classes are not scraped in Python web scraping

http://finance.daum.net/item/main.daum?code=052400

** This is a Korean finance web portal, which shows stock information for a Korean company named "Kona i"

I'm a beginner, just started learning web scraping with Python. I was trying to scrape the price of this stock using BS. In the web page, the tag and the class of the stock price was em, "curPrice up" respectively. So I put "em.curPrice up" in the selector part. And when I printed it, only to come up with an empty list. What is the problem with it?

price = requests.get("http://finance.daum.net/item/main.daum?code=052400")
html = bs(price.text, "lxml")
current_price = html.select("em.curPrice up")

Upvotes: 0

Views: 60

Answers (1)

Trenton Trama
Trenton Trama

Reputation: 4930

The element you're looking for in the html appears to be this.

<em class="curPrice up">19,450</em>

An html selector of em.curPrice up will match an <em> with a class of curPrice, then find a child element <up>

You should modify the selector to em.curPrice.up

Upvotes: 1

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