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    Thread: HELP on Unwanted CSV Export Output | Using Selenium to Scrape
Post: HELP on Unwanted CSV Export Output | Using Seleniu...

Hi guys, It's been a long time since my last post. Anyway, I'm having trouble with the CSV export result on a website I am trying to scrape data from. ==================================== Output P...
soothsayerpg General Coding Help 0 1,274 Jun-13-2021, 12:23 PM
    Thread: Cannot Remove the Double Quotes on a Certain Word (String) Python BeautifulSoup
Post: RE: Cannot Remove the Double Quotes on a Certain W...

Hi guys. Thanks for the response! Did you tried it out? If you try it out and remove all the special chars, that double-quote is the one who'll remain. I had gotten to a point, thinking, maybe I sho...
soothsayerpg General Coding Help 5 7,111 Oct-27-2019, 08:31 AM
    Thread: Cannot Remove the Double Quotes on a Certain Word (String) Python BeautifulSoup
Post: Cannot Remove the Double Quotes on a Certain Word ...

Hi guys, How's it going? I've been in weeks trying to remove a double-quote (") from a word (as I want to count the word in a certain text or webpage and what not). Been going back and forth in cha...
soothsayerpg General Coding Help 5 7,111 Oct-22-2019, 01:43 PM
    Thread: Help|CSV Writing on List with Inner Commas
Post: RE: Help|CSV Writing on List with Inner Commas

Update: I see that writerow() than write() achieve the said goal. But now the problem is it writes in column. Yes, I was also wrong with the second image, I want the end result to be in rows. I achiev...
soothsayerpg General Coding Help 2 2,356 Jul-20-2019, 05:00 AM
    Thread: Help|CSV Writing on List with Inner Commas
Post: Help|CSV Writing on List with Inner Commas

Let's say I have: l = ['Washington, 98373, USA', 'Arlington, WA, 98223, USA', 'Soap Lake, Washington, 98851, USA']What I'm doing is just typical writing with open('results.csv', 'w', newline='') as f:...
soothsayerpg General Coding Help 2 2,356 Jul-20-2019, 02:18 AM
    Thread: Help | How to make Dynamic Path/Address
Post: Help | How to make Dynamic Path/Address

I often see tutorials (mostly) demo of OS Module and every IO module with static addresses/path(s). But how about if we send our script to our friend, when he/she run the script, it won't work since "...
soothsayerpg General Coding Help 3 7,513 Jul-13-2019, 03:11 AM
    Thread: Help | Classes to use in real world
Post: RE: Help | Classes to use in real world

Thanks @Gribouillis. That class example would definitely be helpful to me. Been a week thinking on how to make a script and remake it to a class. Are we obligated to use each and every class section ...
soothsayerpg General Coding Help 9 4,178 Jul-06-2019, 09:27 AM
    Thread: Help | Classes to use in real world
Post: RE: Help | Classes to use in real world

Here's an example of a simple script I made using PyAutoGui import pyautogui as pag pag.FAILSAFE=True #Call Chrome pag.hotkey('command', 'space') pag.typewrite('Chrome\n', 0.25) pag.moveTo(412, 81,...
soothsayerpg General Coding Help 9 4,178 Jul-06-2019, 07:44 AM
    Thread: Help | Classes to use in real world
Post: Help | Classes to use in real world

Hi guys, Tutorials and youtube videos often teach python classes using a person (and without real inputs). My question is, how can I take a module and write a program using classes? For example I wou...
soothsayerpg General Coding Help 9 4,178 Jul-06-2019, 04:07 AM
    Thread: Scrapy Picking What to Output Href or Img
Post: RE: Scrapy Picking What to Output Href or Img

It would be a very big help if anyone can help me out?
soothsayerpg Web Scraping & Web Development 1 2,712 Aug-02-2018, 10:59 AM
    Thread: HTMLParser Reading even the Closing Tag
Post: RE: HTMLParser Reading even the Closing Tag

I got you. I'm confused with both, as a rookie, they both have some area of difficulties I encounter every now and then. At htmlparser or even on other with or without modules. It's easy to do a cond...
soothsayerpg Web Scraping & Web Development 6 3,512 Aug-02-2018, 07:34 AM
    Thread: HTMLParser Reading even the Closing Tag
Post: RE: HTMLParser Reading even the Closing Tag

Do you think that htmlparser can handle big crawls or would I go with Scrapy?
soothsayerpg Web Scraping & Web Development 6 3,512 Aug-02-2018, 07:14 AM
    Thread: HTMLParser Reading even the Closing Tag
Post: RE: HTMLParser Reading even the Closing Tag

Is it possible using only htmlparser or I can combine beautifulsoup with htmlparser on the same sheet? How about scrapy, can I call all of them inside my .py file?
soothsayerpg Web Scraping & Web Development 6 3,512 Jul-28-2018, 12:27 PM
    Thread: HTMLParser Reading even the Closing Tag
Post: HTMLParser Reading even the Closing Tag

Hi guys, since I didn't get any clear response to the scrapy thread. I shifted and trying my luck with HTMLparser. Here's the problem. Whenever I call for 'a' it reads Quote:<a and also includes t...
soothsayerpg Web Scraping & Web Development 6 3,512 Jul-27-2018, 10:21 AM
    Thread: Getting Correct 'a'-tag output
Post: RE: Getting Correct 'a'-tag output

for data in response.css('a'): yield { 'url': data.css('a::attr(href)').extract(), 'text': data.css('a::text').extract(), 'rel': da...
soothsayerpg Web Scraping & Web Development 3 2,711 Jul-26-2018, 06:25 AM
    Thread: Getting Correct 'a'-tag output
Post: RE: Getting Correct 'a'-tag output

I'm green and didn't get what you are trying to say. Can you elaborate by making the script you are trying to tell?
soothsayerpg Web Scraping & Web Development 3 2,711 Jul-26-2018, 05:18 AM
    Thread: Getting Correct 'a'-tag output
Post: Getting Correct 'a'-tag output

I've been trying for almost a week getting the right output for the: Quote:rel="nofollow" Yes, I've been having success if the a-tag contains the said attribute, but if not, it output either: 'author'...
soothsayerpg Web Scraping & Web Development 3 2,711 Jul-25-2018, 10:21 AM
    Thread: Scrapy Picking What to Output Href or Img
Post: Scrapy Picking What to Output Href or Img

Hi again guys, Actually two things I want to ask help for (All of this are just inside the 'a' tag): First one is: I want to have a few items that I would like to output on a csv file. href inner-te...
soothsayerpg Web Scraping & Web Development 1 2,712 Jul-23-2018, 12:22 PM
    Thread: Extract Anchor Text (Scrapy)
Post: RE: Extract Anchor Text (Scrapy)

(Jul-21-2018, 06:26 AM)buran Wrote: try response.css('div.blog_next_page > a::text').extract_first()Scrapy Selectors docs It works! I was messing around with having 'text' inside the attr() or a...
soothsayerpg Web Scraping & Web Development 2 8,334 Jul-21-2018, 07:18 AM
    Thread: Extract Anchor Text (Scrapy)
Post: Extract Anchor Text (Scrapy)

Tried using the search box but didn't find any post that relates. Also tried Googling it but didn't find any answer. How can I extract only the anchor text in a given hyperlink? Quote:I.E. <a hre...
soothsayerpg Web Scraping & Web Development 2 8,334 Jul-21-2018, 06:15 AM

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