Web scraping program cannot find element which I can see in the browser

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The element you’re interested in is dynamically generated, after the initial page load, which means that your browser executed JavaScript, made other network requests, etc. in order to build the page. Requests is just an HTTP library, and as such will not do those things.

You could use a tool like Selenium, or perhaps even analyze the network traffic for the data you need and make the requests directly.

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