If the actual data is not contained in the response.content, it is possible that the data is loaded dynamically using JavaScript, and therefore not directly accessible through BeautifulSoup. In this case, you could use a web scraping tool such as Selenium to automate a web browser and extract data from the loaded page.
Here is an example of how to use Selenium with Python to extract data from a Bing dictionary page:
pip install selenium
Download a web driver compatible with your web browser (e.g. ChromeDriver for Chrome, GeckoDriver for Firefox, etc.).
Import the necessary modules:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
# Replace "/path/to/driver" with the path to your downloaded web driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome("/path/to/driver")
driver.get("https://www.bing.com/dictionary")
search_box = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
search_box.send_keys("example_word")
search_box.submit()
WebDriverWait
to avoid infinite waiting):wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CLASS_NAME, "client_def")))
# Find the definition element
definition = driver.find_element_by_class_name("client_def")
# Extract the text content of the definition element
definition_text = definition.text
print(definition_text)
driver.quit()
This example extracts the text content of the element with class "client_def", which contains the definition of the looked up word. You could use similar Selenium methods to extract other data from the loaded page.
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Asked: 2022-01-23 11:00:00 +0000
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