Script is not continuing its search

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I am new to Python. I recently wrote a basic web scraping script that uses BeautifulSoup. The script is designed to search a specific for changes. If changes are found then the script alerts me via email.

I'm having a issue where the script fails when it reaches a certain point.

If you have an answer to the problem or have a better way of accomplish this task please let me know.

Here's part of my code:

import time
    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup
    import requests

    url = 'http://www.google.com'

    page_response = requests.get(url, timeout=5)

 #Everything seems to work up to here.

    while True:
        if str(soup).find("arenas") == -1:
            time.sleep(60)
            continue

    else:
        msg = 'Subject: Check'
        fromaddr = 'Sending Email'
        toaddrs = ['1','2','3']

        server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
        server.starttls()
        server.login("Sending Email", "Sending Password")

        print('From: ' +fromaddr)
        print('To: ' +str(toaddrs))
        print('Message: ' +msg)

        server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddrs, msg)
        server.quit()

Please indent your code correctly. Also, make it complete. What is `soup`? How is it initialized? — DYZ, Mar 18 '19 at 17:03
This looks like he is using beautiful soup. Please post the entire script Reggie — Edeki Okoh, Mar 18 '19 at 17:11
I'll put the rest of the code in now, as far as errors go, there is none. It just doesn't continue. — reggie jones, Mar 18 '19 at 17:43
Your code is still invalid due to incorrect indentation, and we still do not know _where_ you initialize `soup`. The key to your problem may be there. — DYZ, Mar 18 '19 at 18:41
Is it not initialized at the import. > from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup — reggie jones, Mar 18 '19 at 18:43

Script is not continuing its search

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