How do i read the contents of a website in python?
The following works when I paste it on the browser: Show
But when I try reading the URL with Python nothing happens:
Do I need to encode the URL, or is there something I'm not seeing?
Martin Thoma 113k148 gold badges570 silver badges875 bronze badges asked Feb 28, 2013 at 14:55
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I know there are different threads for error:
Asclepius 52.1k15 gold badges150 silver badges131 bronze badges answered Aug 25, 2017 at 17:38
i.n.n.mi.n.n.m 2,7486 gold badges25 silver badges48 bronze badges 2 None of these answers are very good for Python 3 (tested on latest version at the time of this post). This is how you do it...
The above is for contents that return 'utf-8'. Remove .decode('utf-8') if you want python to "guess the appropriate encoding." Documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html#module-urllib.request answered May 24, 2019 at 14:50
FreddieFreddie 7701 gold badge10 silver badges20 bronze badges 1 A solution with works with Python 2.X and Python 3.X makes use of the Python 2 and 3 compatibility library
answered Jan 20, 2015 at 8:17
Martin ThomaMartin Thoma 113k148 gold badges570 silver badges875 bronze badges We can read website html content as below :
answered Mar 8, 2018 at 9:21
Akash KinwadAkash Kinwad 6541 gold badge7 silver badges21 bronze badges 1
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The URL should be a string:
answered Feb 28, 2013 at 14:58
ATOzTOAATOzTOA 33.6k22 gold badges92 silver badges116 bronze badges 1 I used the following code:
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answered Nov 27, 2019 at 7:37
codedge 4,4602 gold badges21 silver badges38 bronze badges answered May 16, 2020 at 7:59
1 Can Python pull data from a website?When scraping data from websites with Python, you're often interested in particular parts of the page. By spending some time looking through the HTML document, you can identify tags with unique attributes that you can use to extract the data you need.
How do you read data from a website?There are roughly 5 steps as below:. Inspect the website HTML that you want to crawl.. Access URL of the website using code and download all the HTML contents on the page.. Format the downloaded content into a readable format.. Extract out useful information and save it into a structured format.. How do I read a page in Python?Python - Reading HTML Pages. Install Beautifulsoup. Use the Anaconda package manager to install the required package and its dependent packages. ... . Reading the HTML file. In the below example we make a request to an url to be loaded into the python environment. ... . Extracting Tag Value. ... . Extracting All Tags.. How do I extract text from a URL in Python?URL extraction is achieved from a text file by using regular expression. The expression fetches the text wherever it matches the pattern. Only the re module is used for this purpose.
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