Python Scraper Unable to scrape img src

Question

I'm unable to scrape images from the website www.kissmanga.com . I'm using Python3 and the Requests and Beautifulsoup libraries. The scraped image tags give blank "src".

SRC:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

scraper = cfscrape.create_scraper()

url = "http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Bleach/Bleach-634--Friend-004?id=235206"

response = requests.get(url)

soup2 = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')

divImage = soup2.find('div',{"id": "divImage"})

for img in divImage.findAll('img'):
     print(img)

response.close()

I think image scraping is prevented because I believe the website uses cloudflare. Upon this assumption, I also tried using the "cfscrape" library to scrape the content.

Answer 1

You need to wait for JavaScript to inject the html code for images.

Multiple tools are capable of doing this, here are some of them:

• Ghost
• PhantomJS (Ghost Driver)
• Selenium

I was able to get it working with Selenium:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
# it takes forever to load the page, therefore we are setting a threshold
driver.set_page_load_timeout(5)

try:
    driver.get("http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Bleach/Bleach-634--Friend-004?id=235206")
except TimeoutException:
    # never ignore exceptions silently in real world code
    pass

soup2 = BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source, 'html.parser')
divImage = soup2.find('div', {"id": "divImage"})

# close the browser 
driver.close()

for img in divImage.findAll('img'):
    print img.get('src')

Refer to How to download image using requests if you also want to download these images.