beautifulsoup "list object has no attribute" error
beautifulsoup, python, web-scraping
Solution
The `.findAll()` method returns a list of matches. If you wanted one result, use the `.find()` method instead. Alternatively, pick out a specific element like the rest of the code does, or loop over the results:
location = soup.find('h1').text
or
locations = [el.text for el in soup.findAll('h1')]
or
location = soup.findAll('h1')[2].text
Problem
I'm trying to scrape temperatures from a weather site using the following: ``` import urllib2 from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup f = open('airport_temp.tsv', 'w') f.write("Location" + "\t" + "High Temp (F)" + "\t" + "Low Temp (F)" + "\t" + "Mean Humidity" + "\n" ) eventually parse from http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/\w{4}/2012/\d{2}/1/DailyHistory.html for x in range(10): locationstamp = "Location " + str(x) print "Getting data for " + locationstamp url = 'http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KAPA/2013/3/1/DailyHistory.html' page = urllib2.urlopen(url) soup = BeautifulSoup(page) location = soup.findAll('h1').text locsent = location.split() loc = str(locsent[3,6]) hightemp = soup.findAll('nobr')[6].text htemp = hightemp.split() ht = str(htemp[1]) lowtemp = soup.findAll('nobr')[10].text ltemp = lowtemp.split() lt = str(ltemp[1]) avghum = soup.findAll('td')[23].text f.write(loc + "\t|" + ht + "\t|" + lt + "\t|" + avghum + "\n" ) f.close() ``` Unfortunately, I get an error saying: ``` Getting data for Location 0 Traceback (most recent call last): File "airportweather.py", line 18, in <module> location = soup.findAll('H1').text AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'text' ``` I've looked through BS and Python documentation, but am still pretty green, so I couldn't figure it out. Please help this newbie!