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I'm building a web scraping application and I have ran into a problem. I have built a similar one for espn.com, but I'm trying to move on to something more comprehensive and useful for research...



Problem: urllib.request and request libraries are not returning the entire source code for scraping; I am only getting enough information to scrape one of the tables. Here is the current webpage I am using for testing:
https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/ryan-aplin-1.html



import pdb
import urllib.request as ureq
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as BS

def getPlayerStats (playerName, times):
url = "https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/ryan-aplin-1.html"
html = ureq.urlopen(url).read()
print(html)

times = 1
getPlayerStats("Ryan Aplin", times)


The "times" variable is for a separate function that creates url's based on the website formatting, so it is not applicable here.



So my questions are: am I using an incorrect method in requesting source URL? Will I need to switch resources?



It has worked on different websites, so I don't understand why it is not working here.



Thanks.










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    I'm building a web scraping application and I have ran into a problem. I have built a similar one for espn.com, but I'm trying to move on to something more comprehensive and useful for research...



    Problem: urllib.request and request libraries are not returning the entire source code for scraping; I am only getting enough information to scrape one of the tables. Here is the current webpage I am using for testing:
    https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/ryan-aplin-1.html



    import pdb
    import urllib.request as ureq
    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as BS

    def getPlayerStats (playerName, times):
    url = "https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/ryan-aplin-1.html"
    html = ureq.urlopen(url).read()
    print(html)

    times = 1
    getPlayerStats("Ryan Aplin", times)


    The "times" variable is for a separate function that creates url's based on the website formatting, so it is not applicable here.



    So my questions are: am I using an incorrect method in requesting source URL? Will I need to switch resources?



    It has worked on different websites, so I don't understand why it is not working here.



    Thanks.










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      I'm building a web scraping application and I have ran into a problem. I have built a similar one for espn.com, but I'm trying to move on to something more comprehensive and useful for research...



      Problem: urllib.request and request libraries are not returning the entire source code for scraping; I am only getting enough information to scrape one of the tables. Here is the current webpage I am using for testing:
      https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/ryan-aplin-1.html



      import pdb
      import urllib.request as ureq
      from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as BS

      def getPlayerStats (playerName, times):
      url = "https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/ryan-aplin-1.html"
      html = ureq.urlopen(url).read()
      print(html)

      times = 1
      getPlayerStats("Ryan Aplin", times)


      The "times" variable is for a separate function that creates url's based on the website formatting, so it is not applicable here.



      So my questions are: am I using an incorrect method in requesting source URL? Will I need to switch resources?



      It has worked on different websites, so I don't understand why it is not working here.



      Thanks.










      share|improve this question















      I'm building a web scraping application and I have ran into a problem. I have built a similar one for espn.com, but I'm trying to move on to something more comprehensive and useful for research...



      Problem: urllib.request and request libraries are not returning the entire source code for scraping; I am only getting enough information to scrape one of the tables. Here is the current webpage I am using for testing:
      https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/ryan-aplin-1.html



      import pdb
      import urllib.request as ureq
      from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as BS

      def getPlayerStats (playerName, times):
      url = "https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/ryan-aplin-1.html"
      html = ureq.urlopen(url).read()
      print(html)

      times = 1
      getPlayerStats("Ryan Aplin", times)


      The "times" variable is for a separate function that creates url's based on the website formatting, so it is not applicable here.



      So my questions are: am I using an incorrect method in requesting source URL? Will I need to switch resources?



      It has worked on different websites, so I don't understand why it is not working here.



      Thanks.







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