"URL couldn't be processed: %s" during callinf of find_date()

[HubLubas]

I got a problem with exctracting date from website.
date = find_date('https://uk.investing.com/news/astrazeneca-earnings-revenue-beat-in-q4-2582731');

I got such an error:

ValueError Traceback (most recent call last)
in ()
----> 1 date = find_date('https://uk.investing.com/news/astrazeneca-earnings-revenue-beat-in-q4-2582731');

1 frames
/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/htmldate/core.py in find_date(htmlobject, extensive_search, original_date, outputformat, url, verbose, min_date, max_date)
598 if verbose is True:
599 logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
--> 600 tree = load_html(htmlobject)
601 find_date.extensive_search = extensive_search
602 min_date, max_date = get_min_date(min_date), get_max_date(max_date)

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/htmldate/utils.py in load_html(htmlobject)
165 # log the error and quit
166 if htmltext is None:
--> 167 raise ValueError("URL couldn't be processed: %s", htmlobject)
168 # start processing
169 tree = None

ValueError: ("URL couldn't be processed: %s", 'https://uk.investing.com/news/astrazeneca-earnings-revenue-beat-in-q4-2582731')

I will be gratefull for any support and help with this.

[adbar]

Hi @HubLubas, I cannot reproduce the bug:

>>> from htmldate import find_date
>>> find_date('https://uk.investing.com/news/astrazeneca-earnings-revenue-beat-in-q4-2582731')
'2022-02-10'

Are you using the last version? Which system are you on?

[HubLubas]

Hi @adbar

I'm writing in Jupyter notebook on Google Collab.
htmldate 1.2.1 /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages pip

[adbar]

I cannot reproduce it, it works for me:

[HubLubas]

I found the reason of problem.
I changed from
!pip install htmldate
to
!pip install -U htmldate
and now it works.
Thank you @adbar for answering the issue!

[jifan-chen]

I am facing the same issue again:

[adbar]

Hi @jifan-chen, an error is raised because the web page couldn't be downloaded.

You can try to use another download utility or an archived version of the page. Then you can use this pre-existing HTML file as input to the find_date() function.