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Beautiful Soup find_all()
#1
Hi, I have problems doing webscrapping with this code from Google Search.

I am looking to get the top 10 titles from any search made in Google Search but all i get is the following:

I even tried the search string to h3 tag but code doesnt even run then.

Appreciate any help thanks.


My search results are:
Enter your search string : engineer
['engineer0 - Google Search']
['engineer1 - Google Search']
['engineer2 - Google Search']
['engineer3 - Google Search']
['engineer4 - Google Search']
['engineer5 - Google Search']
['engineer6 - Google Search']
['engineer7 - Google Search']
['engineer8 - Google Search']
['engineer9 - Google Search']

titles = soup.find_all("title")
for title in titles:
    print(title.contents)
    title_list.append(title)
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#2
If you look at data you get back when using Requests and Beautiful Soup.
You will see that's is a big mess,this is because Google search use JavaScript heavily.
You will not find h3 tag or title(only for search word) in output.

I have done this task for before i 2-3 year ago for this question then did i used PhantomJS.
Now today is Selenium with Chrome and FireFox web-driver what's used.
Look at Web-scraping part-2.
Under:
Quote:God dammit JavaScript, why do i not get all content

Test my old code rewrite to use Selenium,search for python forum
I only post output,give it some effort and try to use these tool yourself.
Output:
Forums | Python.org https://www.python.org/community/forums/ --------- Python Forum https://python-forum.io/ --------- What are some active Python forums for beginners? - Quora https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-active-Python-forums-fo... --------- Python for beginner - Python - The freeCodeCamp Forum https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/python-for.../169628 --------- What are the best Python forums to hang out in? : Python - Reddit https://www.reddit.com/.../Python/.../what_are_the_best_python_... --------- Python Forum | Dream.In.Code https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/forum/29-python/ --------- Python Forum - Youth4work https://www.youth4work.com › Talent › Python --------- Python Programming Help Forum | Go4Expert https://www.go4expert.com › Forums › Programming --------- Python - Raspberry Pi Forums https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=32 --------- Python Discussion Forum | Hackr.io https://hackr.io/forum/python
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#3
Hi snippsat, thanks for the reply. I was using some chromedrive codes previously but did not know what it was for. I will look at your old post first. Thanks.
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