I am attempting to scrape the artists’ Spotify streaming rankings from Kworb.net into a CSV file and I’ve nearly succeeded except I’m running into a weird issue.
The code below successfully scrapes all 10,000 of the listed artists into the console:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import csv
URL = "https://kworb.net/spotify/artists.html"
result = requests.get(URL)
src = result.content
soup = BeautifulSoup(src, 'html.parser')
table = soup.find('table', id="spotifyartistindex")
header_tags = table.find_all('th')
headers = [header.text.strip() for header in header_tags]
rows = []
data_rows = table.find_all('tr')
for row in data_rows:
value = row.find_all('td')
beautified_value = [dp.text.strip() for dp in value]
print(beautified_value)
if len(beautified_value) == 0:
continue
rows.append(beautified_value)
The issue arises when I use the following code to save the output to a CSV file:
with open('artist_rankings.csv', 'w', newline="") as output:
writer = csv.writer(output)
writer.writerow(headers)
writer.writerows(rows)
For whatever reason, only 738 of the artists are saved to the file. Does anyone know what could be causing this?
Thanks so much for any help!
>Solution :
As an alternative approach, you might want to make your life easier next time and use pandas.
Here’s how:
import requests
import pandas as pd
source = requests.get("https://kworb.net/spotify/artists.html")
df = pd.concat(pd.read_html(source.text, flavor="bs4"))
df.to_csv("artists.csv", index=False)
This outputs a .csv file with 10,000 artists.
