Check if Python has written the targeted text

Question

I'm writing a code to scrape selected portions of visible text off a great number of web pages. Here's a part of it:

                divTag = soup.find_all("div", {'id':'articleBody'})
                for tag in divTag:
                    pTags = tag.find_all("p") 
                    for tag in pTags:
                        print >>f, tag.text

How can I check if Python has found and written the targeted text, and put the link aside (to a list) if the scraping wasn't a success?

I didn't find an answer here, and I don't know where to look in the documentation.

Answer 1

This is an alternative to know if python found the text you are looking for:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

urls = ['https://www.google.com']
for i in range(len(urls)):
    r = requests.get(urls[i])
    soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, 'lxml')
    items = soup.find_all('p')
    for item in items:
        if "2016 - Privacidad - Condiciones" in item.text:
            print "Python has found the targeted text"

If python doesn't find the text, you need to use remove() method.