I am coding a Discord bot in a library for python, discord.py.
I don’t need help with that but with scraping some info from the site.
@commands.command(aliases=["rubyuserinfo"])
async def rubyinfo(self, ctx, input):
HEADERS = {
'User-Agent' : 'Magic Browser'
}
url = f'https://rubyrealms.com/user/{input}/'
async with aiohttp.request("GET", url, headers=HEADERS) as response:
if response.status == 200:
print("Site is working!")
content = await response.text()
soup = BeautifulSoup(content, "html.parser")
page = requests.get(url)
tree = html.fromstring(page.content)
stuff = tree.xpath('/html/body/div[4]/div/div[3]/div[3]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div/p')
print(stuff)
else:
print(f"The request was invalidnStatus code: {response.status}")
The website I am looking for is “https://rubyrealms.com/user/{input}/” where input is given while running h!rubyinfo USERNAME changing the link to https://rubyrealms.com/user/username/.
On the website what I want to get is their BIO which has an XPATH of
"//*[@id="content-wrap"]/div[3]/div[3]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div/p"
where the element is:
<p class="margin-none font-color"> Hey! My name is KOMKO190, you maybe know me from the forums or discord. I am a programmer, I know a bit of JavaScript, small portion of C++, Python and html/css. Mostly python. My user ID is 7364. ||| 5th owner of Space Helmet :) </p>
Any help on how I would scrape that? The only response my bot gives is “[]”
Answer
Change your XPath expression for a relative one :
from lxml import html
import requests
page = requests.get('https://www.rubyrealms.com/user/KOMKO190/')
tree = html.fromstring(page.content)
stuff = tree.xpath('normalize-space(//h3[.="Bio"]/following-sibling::p/text())')
print (stuff)
Output :
Hey! My name is KOMKO190, you maybe know me from the forums or discord. I am a programmer, I know a bit of JavaScript, small portion of C++, Python and html/css. Mostly python. My user ID is 7364. ||| 5th owner of Space Helmet :)