Scraping SVG tags from website using Beautiful Soup

Question

I am trying to scrape SVG tags from a website. The issue is when I manually copy the SVG tag and save it (for example image.svg) it perfect., but when scraping and save as .svg file the image is broken and error.

here is the code:

from urllib.request import Request from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup image_url = 'https://www.hudl.com/' request = Request(image_url, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}) client = urlRequest(request) # time.sleep(1) data = client.read() time.sleep(2) # image data_soup = soup(data, 'html.parser') image_ = data_soup.find('div', {'class': 'mobile-toggle'}) image_ = image_.find('svg')

didn't find any class named drawing-area in the page content. Are you targetting the correct class name? — Epsi95
– Epsi95, Commented Jan 26, 2021 at 14:17
sorry, this is the correct url to page hudl.com/playtools/playbook/manage/27073/offense/play/… however it requires login, you can replace class name with this for home page "mobile-toggle", thanks — zaheer
– zaheer, Commented Jan 26, 2021 at 14:18

Epsi95 · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-26 14:33:38Z

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url = 'https://www.hudl.com/en_gb/' r = requests.get(url) soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, 'html.parser') image_ = soup.find_all('div', {'class': 'mobile-toggle'}) image_ = image_.find('svg') image_ = [i.find('svg') for i in image_] for index, i in enumerate(image_): with open(f'image_{index}.svg', 'w') as f: f.write(str(i))

answered Jan 26, 2021 at 14:33

Epsi95

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zaheer Over a year ago

thanks, this code run perfectly the issue is if i open the image_0.svg its broken image.

Epsi95 Over a year ago

that is strange, it is working fine at my side

zaheer Over a year ago

i will check downloading a new image viewer. thanks for the help

Epsi95 Over a year ago

you can use google chrome to view it. Right click and open with chrome or internet explorer

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