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Can urlopen be blocked by websites? - peterjv26 - Jul-26-2020
Hi, I am trying to scrape a web site with following code. But it comes with a Timeout Error as below.
TimeoutError: [WinError 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond
If I try with other websites, it works.
Wondering if sites can block urlopen?
Is there any way around?
Appreciate any help.
from urllib.request import urlopen from bs4 import BeautifulSoup url = "https://www.nseindia.com/option-chain" html = urlopen(url) soup = BeautifulSoup(html,'lxml') type(soup) title = soup.title print(title)
RE: Can urlopen be blocked by websites? - snippsat - Jul-26-2020
Use Requests and not urllib,also a User agent that site use.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
headers = {
'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.89 Safari/537.36'
}
url = 'https://www.nseindia.com/option-chain'
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'lxml')
print(soup.find('title').text)Output:NSE - Option ChainWhat you see now is what you get with Requests/BS.
This is common problem that Selenium solve.
There are many Threads about this here if search,one with a other stock site.
RE: Can urlopen be blocked by websites? - peterjv26 - Jul-26-2020
Great. It worked. Thank you.