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earningjoker430
earningjoker430

Reputation: 468

BeautifulSoup find.text returns empty string although element exists

I am scraping the following; https://www.espn.com/nfl/scoreboard/ and trying to get the times of the games

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

r = requests.get("https://www.espn.com/nfl/scoreboard")
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, "lxml")

for section in soup.find_all("section", {"class": "Card gameModules"}):
    for game in section.find_all("section", {"class": "Scoreboard bg-clr-white flex flex-auto justify-between"}):
        print(game.find("div", {"class": "ScoreCell__Time ScoreboardScoreCell__Time h9 clr-gray-03"}).text)

Even though it should return the times of the games, it just returns empty strings. Why is this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 416

Answers (1)

Md. Fazlul Hoque
Md. Fazlul Hoque

Reputation: 16187

Your html class element selection ScoreCell__Time ScoreboardScoreCell__Time h9 clr-gray-03 is correct but empty that's why you are getting empty ResultSet. Select the right content related to the element, then you will get output:

Example:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

r = requests.get("https://www.espn.com/nfl/scoreboard")
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, "lxml")

for section in soup.find_all("section", {"class": "Card gameModules"}):
    for game in section.find_all("section", {"class": "Scoreboard bg-clr-white flex flex-auto justify-between"}):
        print(game.find("div", {"class": "ScoreCell__TeamName ScoreCell__TeamName--shortDisplayName truncate db"}).text)

Output:

Jaguars
Bills
Saints
Texans
Seahawks
Giants
Bengals
Lions
Falcons
Commanders
Eagles
Raiders
Packers
Broncos
Buccaneers
Chargers

Upvotes: 1

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