TypeError: Type str doesn't support the buffer API # find method?

Answer 1

You can also make the data coming from your input a str object, like this:

url = "http://www.google.com"
req = request.Request(url)
response = request.urlopen(req)
page = str(response.read()) # make it a str object
print(page[page.find('id='):]) # now you don't need a b in front of your string

Answer 2

You can't use bytes.find() to find a str object inside a bytes object(since they're different types, a str can't be inside bytes).
You can, however, look for a bytes object inside it. This should work:

start_link = input.find(b' <p class="js-tweet-text tweet-text" ')

Btw, you should be using an html parser if you're parsing html.