Deal with scraping error

[georgerichardson]

Trace

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ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
/Users/George/miniconda3/envs/d4d-internal-displacement/lib/python3.6/http/client.py in _get_chunk_left(self)
    545             try:
--> 546                 chunk_left = self._read_next_chunk_size()
    547             except ValueError:

/Users/George/miniconda3/envs/d4d-internal-displacement/lib/python3.6/http/client.py in _read_next_chunk_size(self)
    512         try:
--> 513             return int(line, 16)
    514         except ValueError:

ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 16: b''

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

IncompleteRead                            Traceback (most recent call last)
/Users/George/miniconda3/envs/d4d-internal-displacement/lib/python3.6/http/client.py in _readall_chunked(self)
    562             while True:
--> 563                 chunk_left = self._get_chunk_left()
    564                 if chunk_left is None:

/Users/George/miniconda3/envs/d4d-internal-displacement/lib/python3.6/http/client.py in _get_chunk_left(self)
    547             except ValueError:
--> 548                 raise IncompleteRead(b'')
    549             if chunk_left == 0:

IncompleteRead: IncompleteRead(0 bytes read)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

IncompleteRead                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-62-4f8063e7f514> in <module>()
      4     try:
      5         article = pipeline.create_article(url)
----> 6         pipeline.fetch_article(article)
      7     except exc.IntegrityError:
      8         session.rollback()

/Users/George/projects/d4d/internal-displacement-gr/internal-displacement/internal_displacement/pipeline.py in fetch_article(self, article)
    196         '''
    197         content, publish_date, title, content_type, authors, domain = self.scraper.scrape(
--> 198             article.url)
    199         if content == 'retrieval_failed':
    200             article.update_status(Status.FETCHING_FAILED)

/Users/George/projects/d4d/internal-displacement-gr/internal-displacement/internal_displacement/scraper.py in scrape(self, url, scrape_pdfs)
    189 
    190         """
--> 191         pdf_check = is_pdf_consolidated_test(url)
    192         if pdf_check and scrape_pdfs:
    193             article = self.pdf_article(pdf_check)

/Users/George/projects/d4d/internal-displacement-gr/internal-displacement/internal_displacement/scraper.py in is_pdf_consolidated_test(url)
     63 
     64     # Carry out additional test based by looking for iframe
---> 65     pdf_attempt_2 = is_pdf_iframe_test(url)
     66     if pdf_attempt_2:
     67         return pdf_attempt_2

/Users/George/projects/d4d/internal-displacement-gr/internal-displacement/internal_displacement/scraper.py in is_pdf_iframe_test(url)
     38     try:
     39         page = request.urlopen(url)
---> 40         soup = BeautifulSoup(page, "html.parser")
     41         iframes = soup.find_all('iframe')
     42         if len(iframes) > 0:

/Users/George/miniconda3/envs/d4d-internal-displacement/lib/python3.6/site-packages/bs4/__init__.py in __init__(self, markup, features, builder, parse_only, from_encoding, exclude_encodings, **kwargs)
    189 
    190         if hasattr(markup, 'read'):        # It's a file-type object.
--> 191             markup = markup.read()
    192         elif len(markup) <= 256 and (
    193                 (isinstance(markup, bytes) and not b'<' in markup)

/Users/George/miniconda3/envs/d4d-internal-displacement/lib/python3.6/http/client.py in read(self, amt)
    454 
    455             if self.chunked:
--> 456                 return self._readall_chunked()
    457 
    458             if self.length is None:

/Users/George/miniconda3/envs/d4d-internal-displacement/lib/python3.6/http/client.py in _readall_chunked(self)
    568             return b''.join(value)
    569         except IncompleteRead:
--> 570             raise IncompleteRead(b''.join(value))
    571 
    572     def _readinto_chunked(self, b):

IncompleteRead: IncompleteRead(25405 bytes read)

[domingohui]

What was the url that you were trying to scrape?

[georgerichardson]

That's a good question...

[bthakks]

I came across similar issue when i tried to scrap from https://blogs.savethechildren.org.uk/category/theme/education I was following the tutorial available here

Help please

Trace error

`TypeErrorTraceback (most recent call last)

in () 4 5 # pre-process text and store the same ----> 6 news_df[''clean_text''] = normalize_corpus(news_df[''full_text'']) 7 norm_corpus = list(news_df[''clean_text'']) 8 in normalize_corpus(corpus) 5 for doc in corpus: 6 # strip HTML ----> 7 doc = strip_html_tags(doc) 8 9 in strip_html_tags(text) 1 def strip_html_tags(text): ----> 2 soup = BeautifulSoup(text, "html.parser") 3 stripped_text = soup.get_text() 4 return stripped_text 5 /home/baiju/DSS_DATA/pyenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bs4/__init__.pyc in __init__(self, markup, features, builder, parse_only, from_encoding, exclude_encodings, **kwargs) 244 if hasattr(markup, 'read'): # It's a file-type object. 245 markup = markup.read() --> 246 elif len(markup) <= 256 and ( 247 (isinstance(markup, bytes) and not b'<' in markup) 248 or (isinstance(markup, unicode) and not u'<' in markup) TypeError: object of type 'float' has no len()`