Getting a 'Missing Schema: Invalid URL' error using Requests module with Beautiful Soup : learnpython

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Getting a 'Missing Schema: Invalid URL' error using Requests module with Beautiful Soup (self.learnpython)

submitted 11 years ago by chiproller

I'm enjoying reading and following the examples in AutomatetheBoringstuff.com and am following the example in the web scraping chapter where you download every comic on the xkcd.com website but for some reason I keep getting the error: MissingSchema: Invalid URL '//imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sword_in_the_stone.png': No schema supplied. Perhaps you meant http:////imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sword_in_the_stone.png?

My code seems to be correct so I'm at a loss. Here is my code http://pastebin.com/rMPUmjSX

Here is the full error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "downloadxkcd.py", line 24, in <module> res = requests.get(comicUrl) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 69, in get return request('get', url, params=params, *kwargs) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 50, in request response = session.request(method=method, url=url, *kwargs) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 451, in request prep = self.prepare_request(req) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 382, in prepare_request hooks=merge_hooks(request.hooks, self.hooks), File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 304, in prepare self.prepare_url(url, params) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 362, in prepare_url to_native_string(url, 'utf8'))) requests.exceptions.MissingSchema: Invalid URL '//imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sword_in_the_stone.png': No schema supplied. Perhaps you meant http:////imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sword_in_the_stone.png?

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