{"id":29202,"date":"2023-01-06T05:55:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T00:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-cant-deal-with-some-complicated-laid-out-content-from-a-webpage\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T05:55:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T00:25:06","slug":"solved-cant-deal-with-some-complicated-laid-out-content-from-a-webpage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-cant-deal-with-some-complicated-laid-out-content-from-a-webpage\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Can&#8217;t deal with some complicated laid-out content from a webpage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-51709302\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"51709302\" data-parentid=\"51705712\" data-score=\"3\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>You can take advantage of CSS selector <code>span[id$=lblResultsRaceName]<\/code>, which finds all spans that&#8217;s id ends with lblResultsRaceName and <code>'td &gt; span'<\/code>, which finds all spans that have direct parent <code>&lt;td&gt;<\/code>:<\/p>\n<p>This code snippet will go through all racing result and prints all races:<\/p>\n<pre><code>import requests\nfrom bs4 import BeautifulSoup\n\nurl = \"https:\/\/www.thedogs.com.au\/Racing\/Results.aspx?SearchDate=3-Jun-2018\"\n\ndef get_info(session,link):\n    session.headers['User-Agent'] = \"Mozilla\/5.0\"\n    res = session.get(link)\n    soup = BeautifulSoup(res.text,\"lxml\")\n    formdata = {i['name']: i['value'] for i in soup.select('input[type=hidden]')}\n    for race_name, i in  zip(soup.select('span[id$=lblResultsRaceName]'), soup.select('input[id$=btnViewResults]')):\n        print(race_name.text.strip())\n        formdata[i['name']] = 'Results'\n        req = session.post(link,data = formdata)\n        soup = BeautifulSoup(req.text,\"lxml\")\n        for panel in soup.select('div[id^=ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_tabContainerRaces_tabRace]'):\n            print(panel.select('td &gt; span')[0].text.strip(), panel.select('td &gt; span')[1].text.strip())\n        print('#' * 80)\n\nif __name__ == '__main__':\n    with requests.Session() as session:\n        get_info(session,url)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Prints:<\/p>\n<pre><code>Healsville\nRace 1 Grade:\u00a0\u00a0M\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0300 metres\nRace 2 Grade:\u00a0\u00a0M\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0350 metres\nRace 3 Grade:\u00a0\u00a06\/7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0350 metres\nRace 4 Grade:\u00a0\u00a0R\/W\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0300 metres\nRace 5 Grade:\u00a0\u00a05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0350 metres\nRace 6 Grade:\u00a0\u00a0SE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0350 metres\nRace 7 Grade:\u00a0\u00a04\/5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0350 metres\nRace 8 Grade:\u00a0\u00a0SE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0350 metres\nRace 9 Grade:\u00a0\u00a07\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0300 metres\nRace 10 Grade:\u00a0\u00a06\/7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0300 metres\nRace 11 Grade:\u00a0\u00a04\/5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0300 metres\nRace 12 Grade:\u00a0\u00a05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0300 metres\n################################################################################\nSale\nRace 1 Grade:\u00a0\u00a0M\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0440 metres\nRace 2 Grade:\u00a0\u00a0M\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0440 metres\nRace 3 Grade:\u00a0\u00a0R\/W\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0520 metres\nRace 4 Grade:\u00a0\u00a07\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0440 metres\nRace 5 Grade:\u00a0\u00a0R\/W\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0440 metres\nRace 6 Grade:\u00a0\u00a04\/5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0520 metres\nRace 7 Grade:\u00a0\u00a0R\/W\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0440 metres\nRace 8 Grade:\u00a0\u00a04\/5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0440 metres\nRace 9 Grade:\u00a0\u00a06\/7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0440 metres\nRace 10 Grade:\u00a0\u00a0R\/W\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0440 metres\nRace 11 Grade:\u00a0\u00a0R\/W\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0440 metres\nRace 12 Grade:\u00a0\u00a05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0520 metres\n################################################################################\n...and so on.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">4<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Can&#8217;t deal with some complicated laid-out content from a webpage <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] You can take advantage of CSS selector span[id$=lblResultsRaceName], which finds all spans that&#8217;s id ends with lblResultsRaceName and &#8216;td &gt; 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