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Christopher Batey
Christopher Batey

Reputation: 45

Problem getting Strings from Beautifulsoup4

so here is my code I'm trying to get working

import requests 
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


url = 'https://digitalcoinprice.com'
source_code = requests.get(url)
plain_text = source_code.text
soup = BeautifulSoup(plain_text, "html.parser")
for link in soup.find_all('a', {'class': 'coin_currency_name'}):
    title = link.string
    print(title)

my ultimate goal is to create a web crawler that will log the information of the top 100 cryptocurrencies every 5 minutes. I'd like to work this problem out but am struggling with this hurdle. when I run 

python wcrawl.py

all it does is moves to where I can type a new command.... Sorry I'm not knowledgeable enough on the topic to give any more detail, I have been using python a whole 12 hours now.

just some more info:

Windows 10 inside Anaconda CMD Prompt Python 3.7.2

Upvotes: 1

Views: 84

Answers (2)

L.Cole
L.Cole

Reputation: 333

You should to find 'span' tag instead 'a' tag.

import requests 
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = 'https://digitalcoinprice.com'
source_code = requests.get(url)
plain_text = source_code.text 
soup = BeautifulSoup(plain_text, "html.parser")
for link in soup.find_all('span', {'class': 'coin_currency_name'}):
    title = link.string
    print(title)

Upvotes: 1

QHarr
QHarr

Reputation: 84465

You can use pandas and read_html for this

import pandas as pd
tables = pd.read_html('https://digitalcoinprice.com/')
print(tables[0])

If doing a lot consider also using an API method

Upvotes: 0

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