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Disclaimer: This is my first foray into web scraping

I have a list of URLs corresponding to search results, e.g.,

http://www.vinelink.com/vinelink/servlet/SubjectSearch?siteID=34003&agency=33&offenderID=2662

I'm trying to use Selenium to access the HTML of the result as follows:

for url in detail_urls:

    driver.get(url)

    html = driver.page_source

    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')

    print(soup.prettify())

However, when I comb through the resulting prettified soup, I notice that the components I need are missing. Upon looking back at the page loading process, I see that the URL redirects a few times as follows:

1. http://www.vinelink.com/vinelink/servlet/SubjectSearch?siteID=34003&agency=33&offenderID=2662




2. https://www.vinelink.com/#/searchResults/id/offender/34003/33/2662




3. https://www.vinelink.com/#/searchResults/1

Does anyone have a tip on how to access the final search results data?

Update: After further exploration this seems like it might have to do with the scripts being executed to retrieve the relevant data for display... there are many search results-related scripts referenced in the page_source; is there a way to determine which is relevant?

I am able to Inspect the information I need per this image:

Once you have your soup variable with the HTML follow the code below..

import json

data = soup.find('search-result')['data']

print(data)

Output:
Now treat each value like a dict.

{"offender_sid":154070373,"siteId":34003,"siteDesc":"NC_STATE","first_name":"WESLEY","last_name":"ADAMS","middle_initial":"CHURCHILL","alias_first_name":null,"alias_last_name":null,"alias_middle_initial":null,"oid":"2662","date_of_birth":"1965-11-21","agencyDesc":"Durham County Detention Center","age":53,"race":2,"raceDesc":"African American","gender":null,"genderDesc":null,"status_detail":"Durham County Detention Center","agency":33,"custody_status_cd":1,"custody_detail_cd":33,"custody_status_description":"In Custody","aliasFlag":false,"registerValid":true,"detailAgLink":false,"linkedCases":false,"registerMessage":"","juvenile_flg":0,"vineLinkInd":1,"vineLinkAgAccessCd":2,"links":[{"rel":"agency","href":"//www.vinelink.com/VineAppWebService/api/site/agency/34003/33"},{"rel":"self","href":"//www.vinelink.com/VineAppWebService/api/offender/?offSid=154070373&lang=en_US"}],"actions":[{"name":"register","template":"//www.vinelink.com/VineAppWebService/api/register/{json data}","method":"POST"}]}

Next:

info = json.loads(data)



print(info['first_name'], info['last_name'])



#This prints the first and last name but you can get others, just get the key like 'date_of_birth' or 'siteId'. You can also assign them to variables.