Python error: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'find_all'

Question

I\'m adapting a web scraping program from, http://danielfrg.com/blog/2013/04/01/nba-scraping-data/#disqus_thread, to scrape ESPN for baseball data into a CSV. However when I

Answer 1

The error means that the table variable that you are building by doing:

table = BeautifulSoup(r.text).table

is returning None. And for row in table.find_all("tr")[1:]: on a None is throwing the error.

You can check if the url in question has a table in the way you are trying to access it. You can do this by printing out the url constructed by this statement:

BASE_URL.format(row['prefix_1'], year, row['prefix_2'])

and then going to this url in your browser to check if it has the table of your interest.