Error when using bs4 in python: Did you call find_all() when you meant to call find()?

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File "/home/x/Desktop/Python Programs/Web Scraping tutorial/ccrealweb.py", line 8, in <module>     company_name = jobs.find('a', class_ = 'gtmJobListingPostedBy').a.text  
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/bs4/element.py", line 2253, in __getattr__     raise 
AttributeError( AttributeError: ResultSet object has no attribute 'find'. You're probably treating a list of elements like a single element. Did you call find_all() when you meant to call find()?

When trying to run some basic web scraping code,I get these errors. I’ve had a look around at other forums, and haven’t seen something like my particular code (or at least that I can understand). Please help, as I am thoroughly clueless right now.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

html_text = requests.get('https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/python-jobs').text
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_text, 'lxml')
jobs = soup.find_all('article', class_ = 'job-result-card')
for job in jobs:
    company_name = jobs.find('a', class_ = 'gtmJobListingPostedBy').text
    skills = jobs.find('p', class_ = 'job-result-description__details').text
    published_date = jobs.find('div', class_ = 'job-result-heading__posted-by').text.strip()
    print('Company name:', company_name)
    print('Skills:', skills)
    print(published_date, 'n')

Asked By: Thomas Barnard

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Answer 1

you do

for job in jobs

then you have to do job.find and not jobs.find
Your code works very well afterwards.

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