Python - IndexError: list index out of range - not working

Question

This is my scrap.py code

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup
from urllib.request import urlopen as uReq

website = \"https://houston.craigslist.org/search/cta\         


        

Answer 1

Try the below one. It will fetch you all the items and price and handle IndexError if there is any.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from urllib.request import urlopen

response = urlopen("https://houston.craigslist.org/search/cta")
soup_html = BeautifulSoup(response.read(), "html.parser")
for container in soup_html.find_all("p", {"class":"result-info"}):   
    carname = container.find_all("a")[0].text
    try:
        price = container.find_all('span', {'class':'result-price'})[0].text
    except IndexError:
        price = ""
    print(carname,price)

I tried to shorten your code to make it look better.