[FIXED] Error in printing the real price and currency "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'"

Issue

I want to print the real price of bitcoins using python, but when extracting the name of the currency and its amount, I get an error of AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'

Here is the code I used:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as BS
import requests

url = "https://api.coinbase.com/v2/prices/ETH-CAD/buy"
data = requests.get(url)
soup = BS(data.text, 'html.parser')
ans = soup.find("amount", class_="currency").text

in the last line, it gives me an error of AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text' How can I solve that issue?

Solution

Have you downloaded that page and looked at it yourself? It doesn't return HTML at all. It returns JSON. You don't need BeautifulSoup.

url = "https://api.coinbase.com/v2/prices/ETH-CAD/buy"
data = requests.get(url)
ans = json.loads(data.text)

Answered By - Tim Roberts