python image beautifulsoup screen-scraping craigslist

Scraping Craiglist with BeautifulSoup and getting first image in each posting

I am currently trying to scrape aviation data from craigslist. I have no problem getting all the info I want except the first image for each post. Here is my link:

https://spokane.craigslist.org/search/avo?hasPic=1

I have been able to get all images thanks to a different post on this site but I am having trouble figuring out how to get just the first image.

I am using bs4 and requests for this script. Here is what I have so far which gets every image:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
import requests

image_url = 'https://images.craigslist.org/{}_300x300.jpg'
r = requests.get('https://spokane.craigslist.org/search/avo?hasPic=1')
soup = bs(r.content, 'lxml')
ids = [item['data-ids'].replace('1:','') for item in soup.select('.result-image[data-ids]', limit = 10)] 
images = [image_url.format(j) for i in ids for j in i.split(',')]
print(images)

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

inzel

Solution

You need to find all class with the gallery of images then get the data-ids. Then split them into a list and get the first element [0].

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
import requests

image_url = 'https://images.craigslist.org/{}_300x300.jpg'
r = requests.get('https://spokane.craigslist.org/search/avo?hasPic=1')
soup = bs(r.content, 'lxml')
ids = [item.get('data-ids').replace('1:','') for item in soup.findAll("a", {"class": "result-image gallery"}, limit=10)] 
images = [image_url.format(i.split(',')[0]) for i in ids]
print(images)

Result: