I am new to WebScraping/Python and BeautifulSoup and am having difficulty getting my code to work.
I would like to scrape the url: http://m.imdb.com/feature/bornondate" to get the:
- Name of the celebrity
- Celebrity Image
- Profession
- Best Work
for the ten celebrities on that page. I am not sure what I am doing wrong.
Here is my code:
import urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = 'http://m.imdb.com/feature/bornondate'
test_url = urllib2.urlopen(url)
readHtml = test_url.read()
test_url.close()
soup = BeautifulSoup(readHtml)
# Using it track the number of Actor
count = 0
# Fetching the value present within tag results
person = soup.findChildren('section', 'posters list')
# Changing the person into an iterator
iterperson = iter(person[0].findChildren('a'))
# Finding 'a' in iterperson. Every 'a' tag contains information of a person
for a in iterperson:
imgSource = a.find('img')['src'].split('._V1.')[0] + '._V1_SX214_AL_.jpg'
person = a.findChildren('div', 'label')
title = person[0].find('span', 'title').contents[0]
##profession = person[0].find('div', 'detail').contents[0].split(,)
##bestWork = person[0].find('div', 'detail').contents[1].split(,)
print '*******************************IMDB People Born Today***********************************'
# Printing the S.No of the person
print 'S.No. --> ',
count += 1
print count
# Printing the title/name of the person
print 'Title --> ' + title
# Printing the Image Source of the person
print 'Image Source --> ', imgSource
# Printing the Profession of the person
##print 'Profession --> ', profession
# Printing the Best work of the person
##print 'Best Work --> ', bestWork
Currently nothing is getting printed out.
Also if this to vague could you explain how to do just Name of Celebrity for instance?
Here is the first celebrity's html code if that helps:
<section class="posters list">
<h1>March 7</h1>
<a href="/name/nm0186505/" class="poster "><img src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTA2NjEyMTY4MTVeQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU3MDQ5NDAzNDc@._V1._CR0,0,1369,2019_SX40_SY59.jpg" style="background:url('http://i.media-imdb.com/images/mobile/people-40x59-fade.png')" width="40" height="59"><div class="label"><span class="title">Bryan Cranston</span><div class="detail">Actor, "Ozymandias"</div></div></a>
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