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Sean Taylor
Sean Taylor

Reputation: 159

Why does 'NavigableString' object has no attribute 'text'?

I'm trying to scrape the product titles, price, and stock from books.toscrape.com. However, I'm stuck with the error AttributeError: 'NavigableString' object has no attribute 'text'. What is NavigableString? I don't see it in my code. And what's the problem with the attribute 'text'?

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup 
url = "http://books.toscrape.com/"
response = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'lxml' )
stock = soup.find_all('p', class_='instock availability')
price = soup.find_all('p', class_='price_color')
title = soup.find_all('h3')
for i in range(0, 2):
    quoteTitles = title[i].find('a')
    for quoteTitle in quoteTitles:
        print(quoteTitle.text.strip('\n'))
    print(price[i].text.strip('Â'))
    print(stock[i].text.strip('\n'))

Here is the error code below:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-41-1e5301201749> in <module>
     10     quoteTitles = title[i].find('a')
     11     for quoteTitle in quoteTitles:
---> 12         print(quoteTitle.text.strip('\n'))
     13     print(price[i].text.strip('Â'))
     14     print(stock[i].text.strip('\n'))

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/bs4/element.py in __getattr__(self, attr)
    914             return self
    915         else:
--> 916             raise AttributeError(
    917                 "'%s' object has no attribute '%s'" % (
    918                     self.__class__.__name__, attr))

AttributeError: 'NavigableString' object has no attribute 'text'

Upvotes: 0

Views: 999

Answers (1)

Bhargav Desai
Bhargav Desai

Reputation: 1016

print(quoteTitle.text.strip('\n'))

quoteTitle doesnot have any object as text. if you want to print qoute text , print direct quoteTitle.

print(quoteTitle)

Try this :

for i in range(0, 2):  // fpr print all the detail change this for loop with `for i in range(0, len(title)):`.
    quoteTitles = title[i].find('a')
    for quoteTitle in quoteTitles:
        print(quoteTitle)
        #print(quoteTitle.text.strip('\n'))
    print(price[i].text.strip('Â'))
    print(stock[i].text.strip())

Output will be :

A Light in the ...
£51.77
In stock
Tipping the Velvet
£53.74
In stock

Upvotes: 1

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