python - BeautifulSoup table data extraction - data not showing up

Question

-2 to make this 30 characters is some top kek information based for things idfk

Answer 1

As you yourself found out, the element is not present in the page source, and is loaded dynamically through an AJAX request. The urllib module (or requests) returns the page source, which is why you won't be able to get that value directly.

Go to Developer Tools > Network > XHR and refresh the page. You'll see an AJAX request made to this url:

https://ethplorer.io/service/service.php?data=0x8b353021189375591723e7384262f45709a3c3dc

This url returns the data in the form of JSON. If you have a look at it, you can get the Holders number from it using requests module and the built-in .json() method.

import requests

r = requests.get('https://ethplorer.io/service/service.php?data=0x8b353021189375591723e7384262f45709a3c3dc')
data = r.json()

holders = data['pager']['holders']['total']
print(holders)
# 2346