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Why is scrape not working?
Idk why it is returning this: [' '] but it is and it makes no sense.
webpage=urlopen('http://www.sportsbookreview.com/betting-odds/ncaa-basketball/?date=20120102').read()
findTeamName= re.compile('"team-name".*>(.*) find_it = re.findall(findTeamName,webpage)
print find_it
[' ']
I've checked tutorials and the pages they scrape work fine when I do them. So what's up with this?
Last edited by illfuuptn; 12-09-12 at 01:08 AM. Reason: find_it should be on new line btw
sorry for no code tags but when I put them on it deletes stuff for some reason
Can't post source code because sbr reads it. So I guess you can look for yourself if you want to double check
Last edited by illfuuptn; 12-09-12 at 01:05 AM.
Whatever language that is... I don't know it.Sorry, that I am not able to help you
That's quite alright Maverick. You've helped me many times in the past. It's python for the record.Originally Posted by Maverick22
Whatever language that is... I don't know it.
Hey illfuuptn, I'm not very familiar with python, but I think you should try adding a question mark after the .* in your regular expression.
So it would look like this: findTeamName= re.compile('"team-name".*?>(.*?)). Also, you may need to put something after the (.*?), or risk saving ALL the text after team name.
The question mark makes the regular expression "not greedy"; http://www.regular-expressions.info/optional.html.
Hope this helps.
I've never used urllib before. I downloaded beautfiful soup 4 from the get-go. If you change your code to that (since I have no idea how urlopen works or how compile or findall work), I'll be glad to take a look.
Also, try attaching your code in a .txt file
Never parse HTML using hand-crafted regular expressions. You will go insane and the result will always be unreliable. Just use BeautifulSoup and save yourself the hassle.
Is there an update to this? I'm not familiar with BeautifulSoup, I am more familiar with Scrapy.
Is scraping SBR allowed?
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