how to get the 'things to do' list? I am new to webscraping and i don't know how to loop through each page to get the href of all 'things to do'?tell me where i am doing wrong?Any help would be highly apreciated. Thanks in advance.
import requests
import re
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from urllib.request import urlopen
offset = 0
url = 'https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g255057-Activities-oa' + str(offset) + '-Canberra_Australian_Capital_Territory-Hotels.html#ATTRACTION_LIST_CONTENTS'
urls = []
r = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, "html.parser")
for link in soup.find_all('a', {'last'}):
page_number = link.get('data-page-number')
last_offset = int(page_number) * 30
print('last offset:', last_offset)
for offset in range(0, last_offset, 30):
print('--- page offset:', offset, '---')
url = 'https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g255057-oa' + str(offset) + '-Canberra_Australian_Capital_Territory-Hotels.html#ATTRACTION_LIST_CONTENTS'
r = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, "html.parser")
for link in soup.find_all('a', {'property_title'}):
iurl='https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g255057' + link.get('href')
print(iurl)
Basically i want the href of each 'things to do'. My desired output for 'things to do' is:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g255057-d3377852-Reviews-Weston_Park-Canberra_Australian_Capital_Territory.html
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g255057-d591972-Reviews-Canberra_Museum_and_Gallery-Canberra_Australian_Capital_Territory.html
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g255057-d312426-Reviews-Lanyon_Homestead-Canberra_Australian_Capital_Territory.html
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g255057-d296666-Reviews-Australian_National_University-Canberra_Australian_Capital_Territory.html
Like in below example i used this code for getting the href of each restaurant in canberra city my code for restauranr which works perfectly is:
import requests
import re
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from urllib.request import urlopen
with requests.Session() as session:
for offset in range(0, 1050, 30):
url = 'https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g255057-oa{0}-Canberra_Australian_Capital_Territory.html#EATERY_LIST_CONTENTS'.format(offset)
soup = BeautifulSoup(session.get(url).content, "html.parser")
for link in soup.select('a.property_title'):
iurl = 'https://www.tripadvisor.com/' + link.get('href')
print(iurl)
the output of restaurant code is:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g255057-d1054676-Reviews-Lanterne_Rooms-Canberra_Australian_Capital_Territory.html
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g255057-d755055-Reviews-Courgette_Restaurant-Canberra_Australian_Capital_Territory.html
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g255057-d6893178-Reviews-Pomegranate-Canberra_Australian_Capital_Territory.html
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g255057-d7262443-Reviews-Les_Bistronomes-Canberra_Australian_Capital_Territory.html
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Ok , it's not that hard, you just have to know which tags to use .
Let me explain with this example :
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
base_url = 'https://www.tripadvisor.com/' ## we need this to join the links later ##
main_page = 'https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g255057-Activities-oa{}-Canberra_Australian_Capital_Territory-Hotels.html#ATTRACTION_LIST_CONTENTS'
links = []
## get the initial page to find the number of pages ##
r = requests.get(main_page.format(0))
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, "html.parser")
## select the last page from the list of pages ('a', {'class':'pageNum taLnk'}) ##
last_page = max([ int(page.get('data-offset')) for page in soup.find_all('a', {'class':'pageNum taLnk'}) ])
## now iterate over that range (first page, last page, number of links), and extract the links from each page ##
for i in range(0, last_page + 30, 30):
page = main_page.format(i)
soup = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(page).text, "html.parser") ## get the next page and parse it with BeautifulSoup ##
## get the hrefs from ('div', {'class':'listing_title'}), and join them with base_url to make the links ##
links += [ base_url + link.find('a').get('href') for link in soup.find_all('div', {'class':'listing_title'}) ]
for link in links :
print(link)
That gives us 8 pages and 212 links in total ( 30 on each page, 2 on the last ) .
I hope this clears things up a bit