I am trying to get table data from a website using python urllib and beautiful soup but it returns script

Question

I tried BeautifulSoup but it scrapes the script from URL.

url = 'https://ekartlogistics.com/shipmenttrack/FMPP0944216480' 
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from urllib import request, parse
read = request.urlopen(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(read, 'html.parser')
print(soup.prettify())

It returns the script along with other HTML scripts.

I am trying to get this table data from this URL

Answer 1

The url is loaded data dynamically by javascript. So you can't grab data using only beautifulsoup. You can use automation tool something like selenium. Here I use selenium to mimic javascript and grab table data by using pandas as follows:

Code:

import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import pandas as pd

driver = webdriver.Chrome('chromedriver.exe')
driver.maximize_window()
time.sleep(5)

driver.get("https://ekartlogistics.com/shipmenttrack/FMPP0944216480")
time.sleep(3)
table = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'table.table').get_attribute('outerHTML')

df = pd.read_html(table)[0]
print(df)

Output:

                  Date         Time       Place                           Status
0     Sunday 17 October  04:24:26 PM     Kolkata                 Shipment Created
1     Sunday 17 October  04:24:31 PM     Kolkata     Dispatched to CentralHub_BAG
2     Sunday 17 October  04:56:00 PM     Kolkata       Received at CentralHub_BAG
3     Sunday 17 October  04:56:03 PM     Kolkata       Received at CentralHub_BAG
4     Monday 18 October  03:10:35 AM       Patna     Dispatched to CentralHub_BHT
5    Tuesday 19 October  04:48:44 AM       Patna       Received at CentralHub_BHT
6    Tuesday 19 October  05:03:44 PM  Samastipur  Dispatched to SatelliteHub_SAMA
7  Wednesday 20 October  02:47:44 AM  Samastipur    Received at SatelliteHub_SAMA
8   Thursday 21 October  09:21:52 AM  Samastipur                 Out For Delivery
9     Friday 22 October  07:38:36 AM  Samastipur                        Delivered