BeautifulSoup returning [] after getting user input

Question

Upon asking the user for input it returns a empty list, I’ve tried looking at other answers with similar issues but none of them solved mine.

url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page"
resp = requests.get(url).text
page = BeautifulSoup(resp, "html.parser")




def Get_Links():
        
        inp = input("Enter data you wish to find: ")
        datavar = page.find_all(inp, 'a', href=True)
       
        
        
        print(datavar)

Result:

[]

Asked By: somerandomguyhi

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Answer 1

You need to pass as string argument to the find_all function for the text (text inside the anchor tag) search.

def Get_Links():
    inp = input("Enter data you wish to find: ")
    datavar = page.find_all('a', href=True, string=inp)
    return datavar

Execution:

In [1]: Get_Links()
Enter data you wish to find: 2012
Out[1]: [<a href="/wiki/2012" title="2012">2012</a>]

Answered By: Rahul K P

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