Extracting the Address tag from multiple HTML files using BeautifulSoup

[Dredd]

Hi All,

The below code works exactly how I want it to work for 'title' but just not working at all for 'address'.

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path = "C:\\Users\\mpeter\\Downloads\\lksd\\"   titleList = []   for infile in glob.glob(os.path.join(path, "*.html")):     markup = (infile)     soup = BeautifulSoup(open(markup, "r").read(), 'lxml')     title = soup.find_all("title")     title = soup.title.string     titleList.append(title)       streetAddressList = []   for infile in glob.glob(os.path.join(path, "*.html")):     markup = (infile)     soup = BeautifulSoup(open(markup, "r").read(), 'lxml')     address = soup.find_all("address", class_={"styles_address__zrPvy"})     address = soup.address.string     streetAddressList.append(address)     with open('output2.csv', 'w') as myfile:    writer = csv.writer(myfile)    writer.writerows((titleList, streetAddressList))

Here is the HTML for the address element.

[<address class="styles_address__zrPvy"><svg class="styles_addressIcon__3Pu3L" height="42" viewbox="0 0 32 42" width="32" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M14.381 41.153C2.462 23.873.25 22.1.25 15.75.25 7.051 7.301 0 16 0s15.75 7.051 15.75 15.75c0 6.35-2.212 8.124-14.131 25.403a1.97 1.97 0 01-3.238 0zM16 22.313a6.562 6.562 0 100-13.125 6.562 6.562 0 000 13.124z"></path></svg>Level 1 44 Market Street<!-- -->, <!-- -->Sydney</address>]

All I want is the Title and Address elements in string format, address works if I don't insert the .string line but just gives all HTML. Please help.

[buran]

we are not able to run your code, but soup.find_all will return list and list has no string attribute.
You need to iterate over the list and append string attribute for every element
something like

1	streetAddressList = [item.string for item in address]

this replace lines 12, 18, 19

[Dredd]

we are not able to run your code, but soup.find_all will return list and list has no string attribute.
You need to iterate over the list and append string attribute for every element
something like

1	streetAddressList = [item.string for item in address]

this replace lines 12, 18, 19

Hi Buran, thanks for your comment. It looks like a very simple solution, which I like. For some reason though, it is not returning any data.

Here is the new code you suggested:

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path = "C:\\Users\\mzoljan\\Downloads\\lksd\\"   titleList = []   for infile in glob.glob(os.path.join(path, "*.html")):     markup = (infile)     soup = BeautifulSoup(open(markup, "r").read(), 'lxml')     title = soup.find_all("title")     title = soup.title.string     titleList.append(title)   for infile in glob.glob(os.path.join(path, "*.html")):     markup = (infile)     soup = BeautifulSoup(open(markup, "r").read(), 'lxml')     address = soup.find_all("address", class_={"styles_address__zrPvy"}) streetAddressList = [item.string for item in address]     with open('output2.csv', 'w') as myfile:    writer = csv.writer(myfile)    writer.writerows((titleList, streetAddressList))

Am I missing something?

[buran]

I didn't look at your code into depth. Now I see see it's a bit weird. You iterate over bunch of files, to read first title in separate list, then again to read address(es).

There is no need to use find_all for title - it is expected to have only one tag title, right? Just use soup.find()
Then, is it one address or multiple in each file?
You write to a file after you have exited the second loop. But using list-comprehension will give you only the data from last file not all files (i.e. like when you append to a single list) - this is something I overlooked.
Finally if write 2 lists, but I don't think it will give you what you expect anyway.

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import csv path = "C:\\Users\\mzoljan\\Downloads\\lksd\\"    for infile in glob.glob(os.path.join(path, "*.html")):     with open(infile, "r") as f, open('output2.csv', 'а') as myfile:         writer = csv.writer(myfile)         soup = BeautifulSoup(f.read(), 'lxml')         title = soup.find("title")         if title:            title = soup.title.string         else:             title = '' # just in case there is no title tag         address = soup.find_all("address", class_={"styles_address__zrPvy"}) # do you really need find_all?         for item in address:             writer.writerow([title, item.string])

Note, the code is not tested as I don't have your html files.

[Dredd]

I didn't look at your code into depth. Now I see see it's a bit weird. You iterate over bunch of files, to read first title in separate list, then again to read address(es).

There is no need to use find_all for title - it is expected to have only one tag title, right? Just use soup.find()
Then, is it one address or multiple in each file?
You write to a file after you have exited the second loop. But using list-comprehension will give you only the data from last file not all files (i.e. like when you append to a single list) - this is something I overlooked.
Finally if write 2 lists, but I don't think it will give you what you expect anyway.

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import csv path = "C:\\Users\\mzoljan\\Downloads\\lksd\\"    for infile in glob.glob(os.path.join(path, "*.html")):     with open(infile, "r") as f, open('output2.csv', 'а') as myfile:         writer = csv.writer(myfile)         soup = BeautifulSoup(f.read(), 'lxml')         title = soup.find("title")         if title:            title = soup.title.string         else:             title = '' # just in case there is no title tag         address = soup.find_all("address", class_={"styles_address__zrPvy"}) # do you really need find_all?         for item in address:             writer.writerow([title, item.string])

Note, the code is not tested as I don't have your html files.

Hi Buran, thanks for your help here. It is still not working as expected. To simplify it, I have 4x locally downloaded HTML files which I am trying to return the title and addressin string format. **CORRECTION** The method is returning 6x of the titles and only 1x address.

This is an example of one of the HTML files, which I have multiple: https://toddle.com.au/centres/tobeme-ear...-five-dock, I am basically just trying to scrap the name(title) and address of the school, on locally downloaded HTML files

Again you're assistance is greatly appreciated.

[snippsat]

Quick test,see if this helps.

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import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup   url = 'https://toddle.com.au/centres/tobeme-early-learning-five-dock' response = requests.get(url) soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'lxml') title = soup.select_one('div.styles_headingBox__1BiMj > h1') print(title.text) adress = soup.select_one('.styles_address__zrPvy') print(adress.text)

Output:
ToBeMe Early Learning - Five Dock
25-27 Spencer Street, Five Dock

[Dredd]

Quick test,see if this helps.

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import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup   url = 'https://toddle.com.au/centres/tobeme-early-learning-five-dock' response = requests.get(url) soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'lxml') title = soup.select_one('div.styles_headingBox__1BiMj > h1') print(title.text) adress = soup.select_one('.styles_address__zrPvy') print(adress.text)

Output:
ToBeMe Early Learning - Five Dock
25-27 Spencer Street, Five Dock

Hi Snip, thanks for your reply. As you can see from my code above it is pulling it from multiple locally saved HTML files using glob. Any suggestions how to do this?

[buran]

The method is returning 6x of the titles and only 1x address.

I don't see how it will return 6 titles and one address, but anyway

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import csv import glob import os from bs4 import BeautifulSoup   def parse(fname):     with open(fname) as f:         soup = BeautifulSoup(f.read(), 'lxml')         title = soup.find("title")         address = soup.find("address", class_={"styles_address__zrPvy"}) # do you really need find_all?         return [title.text, address.text]     path = "C:\\Users\\mzoljan\\Downloads\\lksd\\" with open('output2.csv', 'w') as myfile:     writer = csv.writer(myfile)     for infile in glob.glob(os.path.join(path, "*.html")):         writer.writerow(parse(infile))

with a single html file in a folder this produce

Output:
"ToBeMe Early Learning - Five Dock, Five Dock | Toddle","25-27 Spencer Street, Five Dock"

There are bunch of <script> tags with JSON inside and it is possible to extract the above info also from them.

[Dredd]

The method is returning 6x of the titles and only 1x address.

I don't see how it will return 6 titles and one address, but anyway

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import csv import glob import os from bs4 import BeautifulSoup   def parse(fname):     with open(fname) as f:         soup = BeautifulSoup(f.read(), 'lxml')         title = soup.find("title")         address = soup.find("address", class_={"styles_address__zrPvy"}) # do you really need find_all?         return [title.text, address.text]     path = "C:\\Users\\mzoljan\\Downloads\\lksd\\" with open('output2.csv', 'w') as myfile:     writer = csv.writer(myfile)     for infile in glob.glob(os.path.join(path, "*.html")):         writer.writerow(parse(infile))

with a single html file in a folder this produce

Output:
"ToBeMe Early Learning - Five Dock, Five Dock | Toddle","25-27 Spencer Street, Five Dock"

There are bunch of <script> tags with JSON inside and it is possible to extract the above info also from them.

You da man Buran!