🔒 What Im doing wrong?

[pine willow]

Hello guys, I am trying to make web scrapper with selenium but for some reason I cant run the script

Error:

  File "<stdin>", line 1
    py scraper.py
       ^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax```

Script:
```from selenium.webdriver import Chrome, ChromeOptions
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

def get_data(url)->list:
    browser_options = ChromeOptions()
    browser_options_headless = True

    driver = Chrome(options=browser_options)
    driver.get(url)

    element = driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, "Humor")
    element.click()

    books = driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".product_pod")
    data = []
    for book in books:
        title = book.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "h3 > a")
        price = book.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".price_color")
        stock = book.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".instock,availability")

        book_item = {
            'title':title.get_attribute("title"),
            'price':price.text,
            'stock':stock.text
        }

        data.append(book_item)


    driver.quit()
    return data

def main():
    data = get_data("https://books.toscrape.com/")

    print(data)
    print('script work')

if __name__ == 'main':
    main()```

Im using python 3.12.1, my script is out of .env folder
I tried to run it through powershell, gitbash, cmd and no results, I cant figure out where it stucks but I believe code is good..?

[river elk]

Hey @pine willow!

It looks like you incorrectly specified a language for your code block.

Make sure you put your code on a new line following py. There must not be any spaces after py.

Here is an example of how it should look:
```py
print('Hello, world!')
```

This will result in the following:

print('Hello, world!')```
You can **edit your original message** to correct your code block.

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[fickle moth]

how are you trying to run the file?

[pine willow]

py scraper.py, I also tried with py -m scraper.py, py -m run scraper.py ...

[fickle moth]

from where?

where are you running that command?

[pine willow]

from terminal in VScode, gitbash

[torn burrow]

You are trying to run your python script from inside a python interactive session.

[fickle moth]

can you show a screenshot of your screen?

[torn burrow]

Run from the terminal prompt (eg gitbash powershell), not from inside a running Python process.

[crisp pilot]

you're inside the python interactive shell

[fickle moth]

yes, that is a python shell, you run python code there, not python files

try typing exit()

and then your command again

[pine willow]

Thank worked but I got no result

I made a line print('script work') just in case to make sure script works

[torn burrow]

The file you are running probably isn't the file you think it is then. Check it is saved and you don't have an old duplicate in that directory.

[supple halo]

python3 scraper.py

?

[pine willow]

Idk its the only one in the folder, I also tried to c/p it in the .env dir but didnt work

[pine willow]

$ python3 scraper.py
Python was not found; run without arguments to install from the Microsoft Store, or disable this shortcut from Settings > Manage App Execution Aliases.

[crisp pilot]

brother, open file explorer, go right to where your script is located

and on the directory tree above

this part here

click on the empty field, type cmd

hit enter

type python scraper.py

[torn burrow]

He'll run into the issue where Python isn't in his path. Regardless, you can see in vscode he's using a venv with, assumedly, Selenium already installed.

[fickle moth]

pip install run

[torn burrow]

The first execution was successful. The issue is with the script itself.

if __name__ == 'main':
This line of your script is wrong and so the rest never runs.

if __name__ == "__main__"

see the underscores

[pine willow]

Yeah its the issue in script, I added print('test1') on line 4 and I got the output

Wow thank you that was the problem, it works now

I replaced it with:

    main()```

Thank you guys so much

[crisp pilot]

damn

[torn burrow]

took me a lot of starring to see it

[river elk]

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