Why does error 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'contents' occur with only one of two similar commands?

Question

I\'m extracting content from this url.

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = \'https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/french-english/aimer\'
         


        

Answer 1

try this:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = 'https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/french-english/aimer'
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0'}
soup = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(url, headers = headers).content, 'html.parser')

for script in soup.select('script, .hcdcrt, #ad_contentslot_1, #ad_contentslot_2'):
    script.extract()

entry_name = soup.h2.text
content1 = ''.join(map(str, soup.select_one('.cB.cB-def.dictionary.biling').contents))

When you select classes and it is blank-spaces in it you replace the space with ..

cB, cB-def, dictionary and biling is four different classes. And if you let the spaces be there the script looking for a tag with class cB-def inside of a tag with class cB and so on....