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Chan
Chan

Reputation: 4291

Cannot get data using requests.get

I want to get the name of a stock from a web page.

I sent the query using requsts

data = requests.get(r'http://www.etnet.com.hk/www/eng/stocks/realtime/quote.php?code=5').text

In normal situation, 'data' should contain 'HSBC HOLDINGS' but it does not.

'HSBC HOLDINGS' in data # False

What's wrong with my code?

How to solve the problem?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 149

Answers (2)

Andersson
Andersson

Reputation: 52665

Try to add referer header to get required output:

data = requests.get(r'http://www.etnet.com.hk/www/eng/stocks/realtime/quote.php?code=5', headers={'referer': 'http://www.etnet.com.hk/www/eng/stocks/realtime/quote.php?code=00005'}).text
'HSBC HOLDINGS' in data
# True

Upvotes: 1

marcos
marcos

Reputation: 26

This should work

'HSBC HOLDINGS' in data.text

Edit: I did not see you already used '.text' in the first line. For me your code returns true. What is your return, when you print(data)?

Upvotes: 1

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