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Why can't I crawl this link in Python?

I am trying to crawl the contents of a webpage but I don't understand why I am getting this error : http.client.IncompleteRead: IncompleteRead(2268 bytes read, 612 more expected)

here is th link I am trying to crawl : www.rc2.vd.ch

Here is the Python code I am using to crawl :

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
def spider_list():
    url = 'http://www.rc2.vd.ch/registres/hrcintapp-pub/companySearch.action?lang=FR&init=false&advancedMode=false&printMode=false&ofpCriteria=N&actualDate=18.08.2015&rowMin=0&rowMax=0&listSize=0&go=none&showHeader=false&companyName=&companyNameSearchType=CONTAIN&companyOfsUid=&companyOfrcId13Part1=&companyOfrcId13Part2=&companyOfrcId13Part3=&limitResultCompanyActive=ACTIVE&searchRows=51&resultFormat=STD_COMP_NAME&display=Rechercher#result'

    source_code = requests.get(url)
    plain_text = source_code.text
    soup = BeautifulSoup(plain_text, 'html.parser')

    for link in soup.findAll('a', {'class': 'hoverable'}):
        print(link)

spider_list()

I tried with an other website link and it works fine, but why can't I crawl this one?

If it's not possible to do it with this code then how can I do it ?

------------ EDIT ------------

here is the full error message : 

    Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/Nuriddin/PycharmProjects/project/a.py", line 19, in <module>
    spider_list()
  File "C:/Users/Nuriddin/PycharmProjects/project/a.py", line 12, in spider_list
    source_code = requests.get(url)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 69, in get
    return request('get', url, params=params, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 50, in request
    response = session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 465, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 605, in send
    r.content
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\requests\models.py", line 750, in content
    self._content = bytes().join(self.iter_content(CONTENT_CHUNK_SIZE)) or bytes()
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\requests\models.py", line 673, in generate
    for chunk in self.raw.stream(chunk_size, decode_content=True):
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\response.py", line 303, in stream
    for line in self.read_chunked(amt, decode_content=decode_content):
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\response.py", line 450, in read_chunked
    chunk = self._handle_chunk(amt)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\response.py", line 420, in _handle_chunk
    returned_chunk = self._fp._safe_read(self.chunk_left)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\http\client.py", line 664, in _safe_read
    raise IncompleteRead(b''.join(s), amt)
http.client.IncompleteRead: IncompleteRead(4485 bytes read, 628 more expected)
Solution

  • There might be a problem with your editor.

    I am getting correct results in python 3 with your code in IDLE.

    Image is attached below for reference-

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    The only thing that I can think of is to somehow bypass the error:

    import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
def spider_list():
    url = 'http://www.rc2.vd.ch/registres/hrcintapp-pub/companySearch.action?lang=FR&init=false&advancedMode=false&printMode=false&ofpCriteria=N&actualDate=18.08.2015&rowMin=0&rowMax=0&listSize=0&go=none&showHeader=false&companyName=&companyNameSearchType=CONTAIN&companyOfsUid=&companyOfrcId13Part1=&companyOfrcId13Part2=&companyOfrcId13Part3=&limitResultCompanyActive=ACTIVE&searchRows=51&resultFormat=STD_COMP_NAME&display=Rechercher#result'
    try:
        source_code = requests.get(url)
        plain_text = source_code.text
        soup = BeautifulSoup(plain_text, 'html.parser')

        for link in soup.findAll('a', {'class': 'hoverable'}):
            print(link)
    except:
        pass
        #I am passing but you do whatever you want to do in case of error
spider_list()

    Let me know if it helps.