BeautifulSoup - only returning first table

Question

I\'ve been working with BeautifulSoup lately. I\'m trying to get the data from https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/mia/2000_roster.htm site. Specifically all I want

Answer 1

To get the content from that table you need to use any browser simulator cause the response of that portion is generated dynamically. Data from the first table can easily be accessible without any browser simulator, though. I tried selenium in this case:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
page_url = "https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/mia/2000_roster.htm"
driver.get(page_url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source, "lxml")
table = soup.select(".table_outer_container")[1]
for items in table.select("tr"):
    player = items.select("[data-stat='player']")[0].text
    gs = items.select("[data-stat='gs']")[0].text
    print(player,gs)

driver.quit()

Partial output:

Player  GS
Trace Armstrong* 0
John Bock 1
Tim Bowens 15
Lorenzo Bromell 0
Autry Denson 0
Mark Dixon 15
Kevin Donnalley 16

For some reason if you encounter such error, this time there will be no such option for that error either:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
page_url = "https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/mia/2000_roster.htm"
driver.get(page_url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source, "lxml")
table = soup.select(".table_outer_container")[1]
for items in table.select("tr"):
    player = items.select("[data-stat='player']")[0].text if items.select("[data-stat='player']") else ""
    gs = items.select("[data-stat='gs']")[0].text if items.select("[data-stat='gs']") else ""
    print(player,gs)

driver.quit()