python-3.xweb-scrapingbeautifulsouprequestscope

How to scrape javascript text using beautifulsoup


I am trying to get the text produced as a result of an external script in html with Python:

<td class="headerlast item" rowspan="2" colspan="1" id="Party_ATP021_1">
<div id="Party_ATP021mod"></div>

<script type="text/javascript">
var myTooltip = new YAHOO.widget.Tooltip("Party_ATP021tip", { 
context:"Party_ATP021_1", text:"Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs 
(Social Democratic Party of Austria)", showDelay:1000, 
autodismissdelay:5000,iframe:true, preventoverlap:true } );
</script>
SPÖ
</td>

I am trying to get: "SPÖ" with no success.

Thus far I was able to get the id, that is used in the script:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re
from fake_useragent import UserAgent
ua = UserAgent()

link = 'http://eed.nsd.uib.no/webview/velocity?v=2&mode=cube&cube=http%3A%2F%2F129.177.90.166%3A80%2Fobj%2FfCube%2FSIEP2004%21Display_C1&study=http%3A%2F%2F129.177.90.166%3A80%2Fobj%2FfStudy%2FSIEP2004%21Display'

headers ={'user-agent': str(ua.random)}
result_page = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(link, headers=headers, 
timeout=10).text, 'html.parser')

for td in result_page.find_all('td', {'class': 'headerlast item'})[1:]:
    print(td.get('id'))

Any help? Thanks a lot!


Solution

  • For your example data, you might use select with the css selector td.headerlast.item script and get the next_sibling after the script element.

    html_doc = """
    <td class="headerlast item" rowspan="2" colspan="1" id="Party_ATP021_1">
    <div id="Party_ATP021mod"></div>
    
    <script type="text/javascript">
    var myTooltip = new YAHOO.widget.Tooltip("Party_ATP021tip", { 
    context:"Party_ATP021_1", text:"Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs 
    (Social Democratic Party of Austria)", showDelay:1000, 
    autodismissdelay:5000,iframe:true, preventoverlap:true } );
    </script>
    SPÖ
    </td>
    
    """
    
    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
    result_page = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser')
    
    for scrpt in result_page.select("td.headerlast.item script"):
        print(scrpt.next_sibling.strip())
    

    That will result in:

    SPÖ