I'm trying to extract the data on "total assets" from Yahoo Finance using
Python 2.7 and lxml.
Here is a special test script I set up to work on this issue:
import urllib
import lxml
import lxml.html
url_local1 =
"http://www.smartmoney.com/quote/FAST/?story=financials&timewindow=1&opt=YB&isFinprint=1&framework.view=smi_emptyView";
result1 = urllib.urlopen(url_local1)
element_html1 = result1.read()
doc1 = lxml.html.document_fromstring (element_html1)
list_row1 = doc1.xpath(u'.//th[div[text()="Total
Assets"]]/following-sibling::td/text()')
print list_row1
url_local2 = "http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=FAST";
result2 = urllib.urlopen(url_local2)
element_html2 = result2.read()
doc2 = lxml.html.document_fromstring (element_html2)
list_row2 = doc2.xpath(u'.//td[strong[text()="Total
Assets"]]/following-sibling::td/strong/text()')
print list_row2
I'm able to get the row of data on total assets from the Smartmoney page, but I
get just an empty list when I try to parse the Yahoo Finance page.
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