Issue: when I try to execute the script, BeautifulSoup(html, ...)
gives the error message "TypeError: object of type 'Response' has no len(). I tried passing the actual html as a parameter, but it still doesn't work.
import requests
url = 'http://vineoftheday.com/?order_by=rating'
response = requests.get(url)
html = response.content
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
You are getting response.content
. But it return response body as bytes (docs). But you should pass str
to BeautifulSoup constructor (docs). So you need to use the response.text
instead of getting content.
Try to pass the HTML text directly
soup = BeautifulSoup(html.text)
If you're using requests.get('https://example.com')
to get the HTML, you should use requests.get('https://example.com').text
.
you are getting only response code in 'response'
and always use browser header for security otherwise
you will face many issues
Find header in debugger console network section 'header' UserAgent
Try
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from fake_useragent import UserAgent
url = 'http://www.google.com'
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6)
AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36'}
response = requests.get(quote_page, headers=headers).text
soup = BeautifulSoup(response, 'html.parser')
print(soup.prettify())