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I'm writing my first program to download images from a website and have run into a roadblock.
I can't seem to get the src attribute in the variable 'img_url' which contains the div that holds it.

after run the code i get none in the print result instead of the url

import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup count = 1 url = f'https://xkcd.com/{count}/' file_name = f'savedimage0{count}.png' while True: page = requests.get(url) print(f"Status code: {page.status_code} - page read successfully!") soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, 'html.parser') img_url = soup.find(id='comic') img_url = img_url.get('src') print(img_url)

when i print img_url before using img_url.get('src') this is what displays:

<div id="comic">
<img alt="Barrel - Part 1" src="//imgs.xkcd.com/comics/barrel_cropped_(1).jpg" style="image-orientation:none" title="Don't we all."/>
</div>

I figured it out. It only works when you have a single element in the variable.
I my case the img element was nested in the div.

i ended up selecting the div, then the img, and after that it let me select the attribute

while True: page = requests.get(url) print(f"Status code: {page.status_code} - page read successfully!") soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, 'html.parser') comic_container = soup.find(id='comic') img_container = comic_container.find('img') img_url = img_container.get('src')

FYI
Searching for id only may get you in trouble if there are more than one tag with the same id.
It's better to use: comic_container = soup.find('div', {'id': 'comic'})

(Jan-29-2022, 08:03 PM)Larz60+ Wrote: [ -> ]FYI
Searching for id only may get you in trouble if there are more than one tag with the same id.
It's better to use: comic_container = soup.find('div', {'id': 'comic'})

Ok Thanks for the tip :)