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I'm trying to practice using BeautifulSoup. I am trying to pull the image address of football player images from this website: https://www.transfermarkt.com/jordon-ibe/profil/spieler/195652

When I 'inspect' the code, the section that has the img src is below:

    <div class="dataBild">
    <img src="https://tmssl.akamaized.net//images/portrait/header/195652-1456301478.jpg?lm=1456301501" title="Jordon Ibe" alt="Jordon Ibe" class="">
<div class="bildquelle"><span title="imago">imago</span></div>            
</div>

So I was thinking that I could just use BeautifulSoup to find the div with class = "DataBild" as this is unique. 

# Import the Libraries that I need
import urllib3
import certifi
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# Specify the URL
url = 'https://www.transfermarkt.com/jordon-ibe/profil/spieler/195652'
http = urllib3.PoolManager(cert_reqs='CERT_REQUIRED', ca_certs=certifi.where())
response = http.request('GET', url)


#Parse the html using beautiful soup and store in variable 'soup'
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.data, "html.parser")

player_img = soup.find_all('div', {'class':'dataBild'})
print (player_img)

This runs but it doesn't output anything. So I checked by just running print(soup)

# Import the Libraries that I need
import urllib3
import certifi
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# Specify the URL
url = 'https://www.transfermarkt.com/jordon-ibe/profil/spieler/195652'
http = urllib3.PoolManager(cert_reqs='CERT_REQUIRED', ca_certs=certifi.where())
response = http.request('GET', url)


#Parse the html using beautiful soup and store in variable 'soup'
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.data, "html.parser")

print(soup)

This outputs 

<html>
<head><title>404 Not Found</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>404 Not Found</h1></center>
<hr/><center>nginx</center>
</body>
</html>

So it is obviously not pulling all the HTML from the webpage? Why is this happening? And is my logic of looking for div class = DataBild sound?

Raghav Dinesh
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1 Answers1

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The site seems to inspect whether the User-Agent header of the request is valid.

So you need to add the header like this:

import urllib3
import certifi

url = 'https://www.transfermarkt.com/jordon-ibe/profil/spieler/195652'
http = urllib3.PoolManager(cert_reqs='CERT_REQUIRED', ca_certs=certifi.where())
response = http.request('GET', url, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})
print(response.status)

This prints 200. If you remove the headers, you get 404.

Any non-empty User-Agent value (after trimming whitespace) seems to work.

Smi
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