Go Colly how to find requested element?

Question

I'm trying to get specific table to loop through its content using colly but table its not being recognized, here's what I have so far.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    
    "github.com/gocolly/colly"
)

func main() {
    c := colly.NewCollector(
        colly.AllowedDomains("wikipedia.org", "en.wikipedia.org"),
    )
    
    links := make([]string, 0)

    c.OnHTML("div.mw-parser-output", func(e *colly.HTMLElement) {
        
        e.ForEach("table.wikitable.sortable.jquery-tablesorter > tbody > tr", func(_ int, elem *colly.HTMLElement) {
            fmt.Println(elem.ChildAttr("a[href]", "href"))
            links = append(links, elem.ChildAttr("a[href]", "href"))
        })
    })
    
    c.OnRequest(func(r *colly.Request) {
        fmt.Println("Visiting", r.URL.String())
    })

    c.Visit("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population")
    fmt.Println("Found urls for", len(links), "countries.")
}

I need to loop thought all of the tr elements in the the table.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 28 '22 at 15:09

1

Turns out name of the class is actually wikitable.sortable even though in chrome console is shown as wikitable sortable jquery-tablesorter. I dont know why the names are different like this but it solved the problem for me.

answered Dec 28 '22 at 15:09

Lynx

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Go Colly how to find requested element?

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