FeatureNotFound: Couldn't find a tree builder with the features you requested – Webscraping with Pandas

Question

I am learning Python to put together a project for web-scraping skills. I am having trouble downloading a table for football statistics. I am getting the following error:

FeatureNotFound: Couldn't find a tree builder with the features you requested: lxml. Do you need to install a parser library?

Here is my full code. Any help great appreciated.

import pandas as pd
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

res = requests.get("http://www.fftoday.com/stats/playerstats.php?Season=2002&GameWeek=1&PosID=10&LeagueID=26955")
soup = BeautifulSoup(res.content,'lxml')
table = soup.find_all('table')[1]


  Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<ipython-input-20-e6d65d59d7e8>", line 6, in <module>
    soup = BeautifulSoup(res.content,'lxml')

  File "C:\Users\Unciv\Anaconda3\envs\ML27\lib\site-packages\bs4\__init__.py", line 165, in __init__
    % ",".join(features))

FeatureNotFound: Couldn't find a tree builder with the features you requested: lxml. Do you need to install a parser library?

Solution

If lxml does not exist, you can install it using

pip install lxml

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You could also use a different parser to the same effect. html.parser and html5lib are both available by default.

soup = BeautifulSoup(res.content,'html.parser')

This should solve the issue of scraping the webpage. Once you've scraped it, I think you'll need to load table[3], for the table of player stats.

Comments

[ShreyasG]

You might want to install lxml