Web scraping, problem. Noob here

Question

So. Im a noob. Pretty much know nothing about programming. Heard that python is easy to learn so I started.

I need to get a text from a website and then compare if that text is the same as the text that I typed in. Im doing something like this

soup = BeautifulSoup( html, 'html.parser' )
y = soup.find(the things im looking for)

x = y.get_text()

#print(x)
#the output from x is hello

a = 'hello'

if x == a:
print('match')
else:
print('nope')

When I run it the output is nope despite the text being same.
I have no clue whats wrong. From what ive read the y.get_text() is not a text value or something like that? I don't know how to convert it or work around it.

print('Please help')
https://code.sololearn.com/cZtDLhvPTrv7/?ref=app

Answer 1

kluski śląskie your code is working fine. The problem is that the string you are getting from the source have newline characters and/or whitespaces in front and behind it. just remove those and then perform the comparison.

Here is the fix
https://code.sololearn.com/cySbuK0Ih4ad/?ref=app

Answer 2

If possible, can you share the entire code here ?

- you can put it on code playground and then attach it with your question.

Answer 3

Arsenic attached

Answer 4

Arsenic YES! Totally what I was looking for. Thank you so much :)