Creating a list of dictionaries results in a list of copies of the same dictionary

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You are not creating a separate dictionary for each iframe, you just keep modifying the same dictionary over and over, and you keep adding additional references to that dictionary in your list.

Remember, when you do something like content.append(info), you aren’t making a copy of the data, you are simply appending a reference to the data.

You need to create a new dictionary for each iframe.

for iframe in soup.find_all('iframe'):
    info = {}
    ...

Even better, you don’t need to create an empty dictionary first. Just create it all at once:

for iframe in soup.find_all('iframe'):
    info = {
        "src": iframe.get('src'),
        "height": iframe.get('height'),
        "width": iframe.get('width'),
    }
    content.append(info)

There are other ways to accomplish this, such as iterating over a list of attributes, or using list or dictionary comprehensions, but it’s hard to improve upon the clarity of the above code.

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