Web scripting invalid syntax in URL

Question

I am a beginner of web scripting.

I was following a tutorial on Edureka: A Beginner’s Guide to learn web scraping with python!.

There is a syntax error shown inside the URL of my script:

driver.get('<a href='https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/lenovo-ideapad-slim-5i-15-6-full-hd-laptop-512gb-intel-i5'>https://www.jbhifi.com.au/collections/computers-tablets/windows-laptops?page=4')

The invalid syntax seems under com, which is very confusing to me.

I have no idea how to solve it.

What is your relationship to the site you are linking to? Edureka has a history of recent spamming of the Stack Overflow network. — tripleee, Jul 28 '21 at 05:32
Please note, that the Python source example given on that tutorial contains syntax-errors (illegal quoting inside a string): `driver.get(" ...)` (ellipses on the end added by me) — hc_dev, Jul 28 '21 at 05:45
@tripleee I searched the web scripting python for beginner on google and Edureka is the top few websites I saw. I didn't know about the spamming thing here. Thanks for telling me that. — alicelo, Jul 28 '21 at 06:27

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 28 '21 at 05:27

The syntax error is because you are enclosing your string with single quotes, and you also have single quotes inside the string. So Python thinks that everything after '<a href=' is not a string, but it can't interpret that other stuff as Python code, so Python gives up and raises an error.

Normally you would deal with this by enclosing the string with double quotes, or by escaping the single quotes. However, with driver.get, you don't use the <a href="..."> part; you just give it the URL. So you can do this:

driver.get('https://www.jbhifi.com.au/collections/computers-tablets/windows-laptops?page=4')

Anjali A · Answer 2 · 2021-07-31T08:11:34.740

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You cannot use same type of quotes inside and out within the same string. You can either use single and double quotes together or you can escape it. Modify your script as follows:

driver.get('<a href="https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/lenovo-ideapad-slim-5i-15-6-full-hd-laptop-512gb-intel-i5">)

edited Jul 31 '21 at 08:11

answered Jul 28 '21 at 05:29

Anjali A

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`driver.get` only takes the URL, so the `` HTML syntax should be removed. Check step 4 of the tutorial the OP linked to for an example. – Jack Taylor Jul 30 '21 at 04:18

Web scripting invalid syntax in URL

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