Issues With Web Scraping Using Beautiful Soup On Dynamic HTML Websites

I'm trying to scrape a range of HTML files using Beautiful Soup, however I'm getting some really weird results, I think this is because the query is dynamic and I'm not very experi

Solution 1:

The page is loading dynamically through Ajax. Looking at network inspector, the page loads all data from very big JSON file located at https://www.acc.co.nz/for-providers/treatment-recovery/work-type-detail-sheets/getSheets. To load all job data, you can use this script:

url = "https://www.acc.co.nz/for-providers/treatment-recovery/work-type-detail-sheets/getSheets"

import requests
import json

headers = {'X-Requested-With': 'XMLHttpRequest'}
r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
data = json.loads(r.text)

# For printing all data in pretty form uncoment this line:
# print(json.dumps(data, indent=4, sort_keys=True))

for d in data:
    print(f'ID:\t{d["ID"]}')
    print(f'Job Title:\t{d["JobTitle"]}')
    print(f'Created:\t{d["Created"]}')
    print('*' * 80)

# Available keys in this JSON:
# ClassName
# LastEdited
# Created
# ANZSCO
# JobTitle
# Description
# WorkTasks
# WorkEnvironment
# PhysicalMentalDemands
# Comments
# EntryRequirements
# Group
# ID
# RecordClassName

This prints:

ID: 2327
Job Title:  Watch and Clock Maker and Repairer   
Created:    2017-07-11 11:33:52
********************************************************************************
ID: 2328
Job Title:  Web Administrator
Created:    2017-07-11 11:33:52
********************************************************************************
ID: 2329
Job Title:  Welder 
Created:    2017-07-11 11:33:52

...and so on

In the script I wrote available keys you can use to access your specific job data.