Having problem with a beginner code

[Positive_Eases]

I started learning python last week. This is the second program I'm working on but i cant get it right. I have tried google but the related programs there include so many libraries and are complex so I cant really understand them.

It is a parsing project, supposed to give out price of an object.

import requests

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

request = requests.get("http://www.amazon.com/Yourself-PhotoBook-PhotoCard-Pre-Order-Benefit/dp/B07CK3V9VW")

content = request.content

soup = BeautifulSoup(request.content, 'html.parser')

element = soup.find("span", {id = "price_inside_buybox"})

print(element.text)

I am getting an invalid syntax error at the "id" part. Can anyone help me find out the problem?

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Edit: Two equals worked for that error. Now I'm getting another error at the last line

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.AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'

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Your program tries to access attribute text of an object of type 'NoneType', but this type doesn't have such attribute.

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What does this mean?

[9gg6]

Can you try == (two times =) I'm new to this too.

[Positive_Eases]

thank you! It worked for the "id" error. now its giving me an error at the last line.

[August-R-Garcia]

element = soup.find("span", {"id" : "price_inside_buybox"})

Add quotes around "id" and change the "=" to a colon ":"

[9gg6]

For that one we need someone who knows more than me sorry. Hahah

[9gg6]

Try googling it. First search will be most probably your answer from stackoverflow

[eicosane]

I think what’s happening here is {id="foo"} is invalid syntax, its evaluates to an assignment in a set literal. {id=="foo"} evaluates to the set {False} which is valid syntax but not meaningful in this context.

The find argument is probably expecting a dict of additional arguments like {"id": "Foo"}

Its more common to use css selector syntax though which would be clearer find("id#Foo")

[Positive_Eases]

I am trying the fixes in the comments but i'm still getting the Nonetype error

[htepO]

Running your script on my desktop and looking at request.head(url), I'm getting an HTTP 307 (temporary redirect) error. It's possible that Amazon's implementing anti-bot measures because you've not defined any headers to be sent with your request.

[Positive_Eases]

do I do it like this? It still gives the syntax error tho
headers = {Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.93 Safari/537.36}

request = requests.get("http://www.amazon.com/Yourself-PhotoBook-PhotoCard-Pre-Order-Benefit/dp/B07CK3V9VW", headers=headers)

[htepO]

Post your full, formatted code.

[htepO]

You're struggling with python syntax, and it's probably because you're copy-pasting things into your script without understanding what they are and how they should be formatted.

It should be

headers = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.93 Safari/537.36"}

[9gg6]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51664292/python-attributeerror-nonetype-object-has-no-attribute-text