When using BeautifulSoup for web crawling, the find_previous_sibling function does not work properly.
I'm trying to extract several values from the website (https://carone.com.uy/autos-usados-y-0km?p=21). Some work fine, but some don't. For example, I am able to extract the name, model, price and fuel type, but cannot correctly extract the "Year" or "Kilometers" fields, the code always returns "N/A" as the value.
This is the code I'm using:
import pandas as pd
from datetime import date
import os
import socket
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
def scrape_product_data(url):
try:
headers = {
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3"
}
product_data = []
# Make the request to get the HTML content
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
response.raise_for_status() # Check if the request was successful
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
product_elements = soup.find_all('div', class_='product-item-info')
for product_element in product_elements:
# Extract product name, price, model, and attributes as before (same code as previous version)
product_name_element = product_element.select_one('p.carone-car-info-data-brand.cursor-pointer')
product_name = product_name_element.text.strip() if product_name_element else "N/A"
product_price_element = product_element.find('span', class_='price')
product_price = product_price_element.text.strip() if product_price_element else "N/A"
product_model_element = product_element.select_one('p.carone-car-info-data-model')
product_model = product_model_element.get('title').strip() if product_model_element else "N/A"
# Extract product attributes
attributes_div = product_element.find('div', class_='carone-car-attributes')
year_element = attributes_div.find('p', class_='carone-car-attribute-title', text='Año')
year_value = year_element.find_previous_sibling('p', class_='carone-car-attribute-value').text if year_element else "N/A"
kilometers_element = attributes_div.find('p', class_='carone-car-attribute-title', text='Kilómetros')
kilometers_value = kilometers_element.find_previous_sibling('p', class_='carone-car-attribute-value').text if kilometers_element else "N/A"
fuel_element = attributes_div.find('p', class_='carone-car-attribute-title', text='Combustible')
fuel_value = fuel_element.find_previous_sibling('p', class_='carone-car-attribute-value').text if fuel_element else "N/A"
# Append product data as a tuple (name, price, model, year, kilometers, fuel) to the list
product_data.append((product_name, product_price, product_model, year_value, kilometers_value, fuel_value))
The result looks like this: enter image description here
I don't understand why the mentioned value always gets "N/A" while the other ones work fine and the method is the same.
