Python error: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'find_all'
attributeerror, nonetype, object, python
Solution
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.
Problem
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 run the second piece of code to write a csv of games I get the 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'find_all' error, from the following section of code ``` for index, row in teams.iterrows(): _team, url = row['team'], row['url'] r = requests.get(BASE_URL.format(row['prefix_1'], year, row['prefix_2'])) table = BeautifulSoup(r.text).table for row in table.find_all("tr")[1:]: # Remove header columns = row.find_all('td') try: _home = True if columns[1].li.text == 'vs' else False _other_team = columns[1].find_all('a')[1].text _score = columns[2].a.text.split(' ')[0].split('-') _won = True if columns[2].span.text == 'W' else False match_id.append(columns[2].a['href'].split('?id=')[1]) home_team.append(_team if _home else _other_team) visit_team.append(_team if not _home else _other_team) d = datetime.strptime(columns[0].text, '%a, %b %d') dates.append(date(year, d.month, d.day)) ``` I can post the whole program but this is the piece of code the compiler reads the error for. The full error text is ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python27\Project Files\Game Parser.py", line 23, in <module> for row in table.find_all("tr")[1:]: # Remove header AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'find_all' ``` Any help on how to get this code running would be greatly appreciated.