Why can't I scrape Amazon by BeautifulSoup?

Question

Here is my python code:

import urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

page = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.amazon.com/")
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
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Answer 1

Add a header, then it will work.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
url = "http://www.amazon.com/"

# add header
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.71 Safari/537.36'}
r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, "lxml")
print soup

Answer 2

I just ran into this and found that setting any user-agent will work. You don't need to lie about your user agent.

response = HTTParty.get @url, headers: {'User-Agent' => 'Httparty'}

Answer 3

Add a header

import urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

headers = {'User-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.120 Safari/537.36'}

page = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.amazon.com/")
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
print soup

Answer 4

You can try this:

import urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

page = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.amazon.com/")
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
print soup

In python arbitrary text is called a string and it must be enclosed in quotes(" ").