I am extremely new to Python and web scraping. I want to build a simple script for checking the NVIDIA driver page for new versions from time to time using the code below. from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import requests url = "https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/" response = requests.get(url) soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, "html.parser") # Find the version number (572.83) version_number = soup.find('td', class_='version').text print(f"Defined version number: {version_number}") # Check if the correct version number is present expected_version = "572.83" if version_number != expected_version: print(f"Warning: Incorrect version ({version_number}) found instead of {expected_version}") I expected to get the following outputs running this script: Defined version number: 572.83 When I run the script I get the following outputs: Defined version number: ~ddVersion_td~ Warning: Incorrect version (~ddVersion_td~) found instead of 572.83 Can anyone shed some light on what I am missing? I have scrubbed through a few different forums and the documentation but I haven't been able to dedicate much time to it. Continue reading...
