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My code so far, works for different table on FBref website, however struggling to get player details. The below code:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, Comment


url = 'https://fbref.com/en/squads/18bb7c10/Arsenal-Stats'
soup = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(url).content, 'html.parser')

table = BeautifulSoup(soup.select_one('#stats_standard').find_next(text=lambda x: isinstance(x, Comment)), 'html.parser')

#print some information from the table to screen:
for tr in table.select('tr:has(td)'):
tds = [td.get_text(strip=True) for td in tr.select('td')]
print('{:<30}{:<20}{:<10}'.format(tds[0], tds[3], tds[5]))

Gives me the error:

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'find_next'

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    You're getting this error as you are getting NoneType object from select_one. This is because '#stats_standard' can't be found, to be selected. Commented Feb 8, 2021 at 10:51
  • Please do not vandalize your post by removing the code (rolled back). Commented Apr 25, 2021 at 12:27

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What happens?

As mentioned, there is no table with id stats_standard the id should be stats_standard_10728

How to fix and go a bit generic

Change your table selector to:

table = soup.select_one('table[id^="stats_standard"]')

Example

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, Comment


url = 'https://fbref.com/en/squads/18bb7c10/Arsenal-Stats'
soup = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(url).content, 'html.parser')

table = soup.select_one('table[id^="stats_standard"]')

#print some information from the table to screen:
for tr in table.select('tr:has(td)'):
    tds = [td.get_text(strip=True) for td in tr.select('td')]
    print('{:<30}{:<20}{:<10}'.format(tds[0], tds[3], tds[5]))

Just in case

You can make your life much easier using pandas read_html() to grab, display and modify table data.

Example

import pandas as pd
pd.read_html('https://fbref.com/en/squads/18bb7c10/Arsenal-Stats')[0]

Need to know, how to handle commented tables? Check -> How to scrape table from fbref could not be found by BeautifulSoup?

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