[FIXED] Why can't I find table when scraping website?

Issue

I am trying to fix this code where I'm trying to get table from SEC website of this company

Libraries:

# import our libraries
import requests
import pandas as pd
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

Definition of parameters for search:

# base URL for the SEC EDGAR browser
endpoint = r"https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar"

# define our parameters dictionary
param_dict = {'action':'getcompany',
              'CIK':'1265107',
              'type':'10-k',
              'dateb':'20190101',
              'owner':'exclude',
              'start':'',
              'output':'',
              'count':'100'}

# request the url, and then parse the response.
response = requests.get(url = endpoint, params = param_dict)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')

# Let the user know it was successful.
print('Request Successful')
print(response.url)

This is where the problem is, when I try to loop over the content of the table i get error shown below as if the table does not exist.

# find the document table with our data
doc_table = soup.find_all('table', class_='tableFile2')

# define a base url that will be used for link building.
base_url_sec = r"https://www.sec.gov"

master_list = []

# loop through each row in the table.
for row in doc_table[0].find_all('tr'):

The error:

Here is the link to the website I am trying to scrape https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=1265107&type=10-k&dateb=20190101&owner=exclude&start=&output=&count=100 When I inspect the elements of the website I can't find anything that could cause this error.

Thank you for any help.

Solution

The following table data is static. You can grab the table using pandas without invoking the API url

import pandas as pd
import requests
headers = {
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.131 Safari/537.36"
}
url= 'https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=1265107&type=10-k&dateb=20190101&owner=exclude&start=&output=&count=100'
req=requests.get(url,headers=headers).text
df=pd.read_html(req)[2]
print(df)

Output:

Filings                      Format  ... Filing Date     File/Film Number
0    10-K  Documents Interactive Data  ...  2018-03-07   333-11002518671437   
1    10-K  Documents Interactive Data  ...  2017-03-13   333-11002517683575   
2    10-K  Documents Interactive Data  ...  2016-03-08  333-110025161489854   
3    10-K  Documents Interactive Data  ...  2015-03-06   333-11002515681017   
4    10-K  Documents Interactive Data  ...  2014-03-04   333-11002514664345   
5    10-K  Documents Interactive Data  ...  2013-03-01   333-11002513655933   
6    10-K                   Documents  ...  2006-09-20  333-110025061099734   
7    10-K                   Documents  ...  2005-09-23  333-110025051099353   

[8 rows x 5 columns]

Alternative: Your code is also working fine. Just you have to inject the user-agent as headers.

headers = {
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.131 Safari/537.36"
}
endpoint = r"https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar"

# define our parameters dictionary
param_dict = {'action':'getcompany',
              'CIK':'1265107',
              'type':'10-k',
              'dateb':'20190101',
              'owner':'exclude',
              'start':'',
              'output':'',
              'count':'100'}

# request the url, and then parse the response.
response = requests.get(url = endpoint, params = param_dict,headers=headers)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')

# Let the user know it was successful.
print('Request Successful')
print(response.url)


doc_table = soup.find_all('table', class_='tableFile2')

# define a base url that will be used for link building.
base_url_sec = r"https://www.sec.gov"

master_list = []

# loop through each row in the table.
for row in doc_table[0].find_all('tr'):
    print(list(row.stripped_strings))

Output:

['Filings', 'Format', 'Description', 'Filing Date', 'File/Film Number']
['10-K', 'Documents', 'Interactive Data', 'Annual report [Section 13 and 15(d), not S-K Item 405]', 'Acc-no: 0001265107-18-000013\xa0(34 Act)\xa0 Size: 11 MB', '2018-03-07', '333-110025', 
'18671437']
['10-K', 'Documents', 'Interactive Data', 'Annual report [Section 13 and 15(d), not S-K Item 405]', 'Acc-no: 0001265107-17-000007\xa0(34 Act)\xa0 Size: 11 MB', '2017-03-13', '333-110025', 
'17683575']
['10-K', 'Documents', 'Interactive Data', 'Annual report [Section 13 and 15(d), not S-K Item 405]', 'Acc-no: 0001265107-16-000052\xa0(34 Act)\xa0 Size: 9 MB', '2016-03-08', '333-110025', '161489854']

Answered By - F.Hoque