Extracting product details from an online store using Python and BeautifulSoup

Ecom
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I'm trying to get product info from an online electronics store. My code uses BeautifulSoup but I'm not getting the results I want. Here's what I've got so far:

```python
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = 'https://example-electronics-store.com'
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'lxml')

product_container = soup.find('div', class_='product-grid')
if product_container:
    product_items = product_container.find_all('li', class_='product-item')
    for item in product_items:
        product_name = item.find('h3', class_='product-name').text.strip()
        product_price = item.find('span', class_='price').text.strip()
        product_link = item.find('a', class_='product-link')['href']
        print(f'Name: {product_name}, Price: {product_price}, Link: {product_link}')
else:
    print('No product container found')

I’m struggling to get the individual product details. Can someone help me figure out how to extract the product names, prices, and links from the <li> elements? Thanks!

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hey sophie, ur code looks good but maybe the website is using javascript to load stuff? try using selenium instead of beautifulsoup. it can handle dynamic content better. also, double-check those class names - they might be different on the actual site. good luck with ur scraping project!

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Hey Sophie26! Your code looks pretty solid, but I’m curious about a couple things. Have you checked if the website uses any anti-scraping measures? Sometimes they can be sneaky!

Also, I wonder if the product info might be loaded dynamically with JavaScript? That could explain why BeautifulSoup isn’t catching it. Have you considered using something like Selenium to render the page first?

Oh, and here’s a random thought - maybe try printing out the whole HTML you’re getting back from the request? Sometimes that can reveal surprises about what’s actually in the response.

What do you think about giving those a shot? Let us know how it goes - I’m really curious to see if you crack this!