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BeautifulSoup: Error while extracting a value from an HTML table
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(Aug-23-2019, 11:24 AM)snippsat Wrote: First you most always tell what parser BS should use,here html.parser which comes with Python.
Can not search as you try to do with {'Shares outstanding'}.
Here a example.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html = '''\
<div class="card-body">
        <div class="table-responsive">
          <table class="table table__group table-sm table-hover">
                          <tr>
                <td>Trading currency</td>
                <td><strong>EUR</strong></td>
              </tr>
                                      <tr>
                <td>Price multiplier</td>
                <td><strong>1</strong></td>
              </tr>
                                      <tr>
                <td>Quantity notation</td>
                <td><strong>Number of units</strong></td>
              </tr>
                                      <tr>
                <td>Shares outstanding</td>
                <td><strong>872,308,162</strong></td>
              </tr>
                                      <tr>
                <td>Trading group</td>
                <td><strong>P0</strong></td>
              </tr>
                                      <tr>
                <td>Trading type</td>
                <td><strong>Continuous</strong></td>
              </tr><div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="VALUE_TO_RETURN"></div>'''

soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
table = soup.find('table', class_="table table__group table-sm table-hover")
price = table.find_all('strong')[3]
print(f'The price is {price.text}')
Output:
The price is 872,308,162

Thanks. I am not sure to fully understand why it is not possible to look for the "Shares outstanding", but the solution provided works great.

Cheers
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RE: BeautifulSoup: Error while extracting a value from an HTML table - by kawasso - Aug-25-2019, 01:13 AM

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