lxml.html. Error reading file; Failed to load external entity

Question

I am trying to get a movie trailer url from YouTube using parsing with lxml.html:

from lxml import html
import lxml.html
from lxml.etree import XPath

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Answer 1

SSL/TLS is not supported by libxml2. Use Python's urllib2 instead.

If you try any url with http://<blah>.<blah> you wont have trouble but https is not supported here. There are redirection issues also.

Try

from urllib2 import urlopen
import lxml.html
tree = lxml.html.parse(urlopen('https://google.com'))

For more information refer this

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Solution

Well there are workaround. Try selenium and if you dont want a UI then run selenium in headless mode. Works fine i tried it myself.