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    <p>Inreresting the problem isn't a redirect is that page modifies the content using javascript, but <code>urllib2</code> doesn't have a <code>JS</code> engine it just <code>GETS</code> data, if you disabled javascript on your browser you will note it loads basically the same content as what <code>urllib2</code> returns </p> <pre><code>import urllib2 from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup bostonPage = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.tripadvisor.com/HACSearch?geo=34438#02,1342106684473,rad:S0,sponsors:ABEST_WESTERN,style:Szff_6") soup = BeautifulSoup(bostonPage) open('test.html', 'w').write(soup.read()) </code></pre> <p><code>test.html</code> and disabling JS in your browser, easiest in firefox content -> uncheck enable javascript, generates identical result sets.</p> <p>So what can we do well, first we should check if the site offers an API, scrapping tends to be frown up <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/help/what_type_of_tripadvisor_content_is_available" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.tripadvisor.com/help/what_type_of_tripadvisor_content_is_available</a></p> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1185961/travel-hotel-apis">Travel/Hotel API&#39;s?</a> it looks they might, though with some restrictions.</p> <p>But if we still need to scrape it, with JS, then we can use <code>selenium</code> <a href="http://seleniumhq.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://seleniumhq.org/</a> its mainly used for testing, but its easy and has fairly good docs.</p> <p>I also found this <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3362859/scraping-websites-with-javascript-enabled">Scraping websites with Javascript enabled?</a> and this <a href="http://grep.codeconsult.ch/2007/02/24/crowbar-scrape-javascript-generated-pages-via-gecko-and-rest/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://grep.codeconsult.ch/2007/02/24/crowbar-scrape-javascript-generated-pages-via-gecko-and-rest/</a> </p> <p>hope that helps.</p> <p>As a side note:</p> <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; import urllib2 &gt;&gt;&gt; from bs4 import BeautifulSoup &gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; bostonPage = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.tripadvisor.com/HACSearch?geo=34438#02,1342106684473,rad:S0,sponsors:ABEST_WESTERN,style:Szff_6") &gt;&gt;&gt; value = bostonPage.read() &gt;&gt;&gt; soup = BeautifulSoup(value) &gt;&gt;&gt; open('test.html', 'w').write(value) </code></pre>
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    1. COThanks for your answer. Let me try to reiterate some of that: so when you click on the different categories like "Luxury" or "Families", the changes you see on the page are generated solely through javascript? (ie the code for the page never changes?) And what I need to do is find a tool that will run the JS and then return that content? What is easiest/the best from what you recommended? I feel an api is not appropriate for what I'm trying to do in this case.
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