Why is the 'meta description' html tag not translated? : Forums : PythonAnywhere

I have this python code which works very well.

So, I can translate all my HTML tags, except this one: <meta name="description" content="...">

can anyone help me with a solution? I don't know why it doesn't work.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from bs4.formatter import HTMLFormatter
from googletrans import Translator
import requests

translator = Translator()

class UnsortedAttributes(HTMLFormatter):
    def attributes(self, tag):
        for k, v in tag.attrs.items():
            yield k, v

files_from_folder = r"c:\carte\1"

use_translate_folder = True

destination_language = 'fr'

extension_file = ".html"

import os

directory = os.fsencode(files_from_folder)

def recursively_translate(node):
    for x in range(len(node.contents)):
        if isinstance(node.contents[x], str):
            if node.contents[x].strip() != '':
                try:
                    node.contents[x].replaceWith(translator.translate(node.contents[x], dest=destination_language).text)
                except:
                    pass
        elif node.contents[x] != None:
            recursively_translate(node.contents[x])

amount = 1
for file in os.listdir(directory):
    filename = os.fsdecode(file)
    print(filename)
    if filename == 'y_key_e479323ce281e459.html' or filename == 'directory.html':
        continue
    if filename.endswith(extension_file):
        with open(os.path.join(files_from_folder, filename), encoding='utf-8') as html:
            soup = BeautifulSoup('<pre>' + html.read() + '</pre>', 'html.parser')
            for title in soup.findAll('title'):
                recursively_translate(title)

            for meta in soup.findAll('meta', {'name':'description'}):
                try:
                    meta['content'] = recursively_translate(meta['content'])
                except:
                    pass


            for p in soup.findAll('p', class_='text_obisnuit2'):
                    recursively_translate(p)



        print(f'{filename} translated ({amount})')
        amount += 1
        soup = soup.encode(formatter=UnsortedAttributes()).decode('utf-8')
        new_filename = f'{filename.split(".")[0]}_{destination_language}.html'
        if use_translate_folder:
            try:
                with open(os.path.join(files_from_folder+r'\translated', new_filename), 'w', encoding='utf-8') as new_html:
                    new_html.write(soup[5:-6])
            except:
                os.mkdir(files_from_folder+r'\translated')
                with open(os.path.join(files_from_folder+r'\translated', new_filename), 'w', encoding='utf-8') as new_html:
                    new_html.write(soup[5:-6])
        else:
            with open(os.path.join(files_from_folder, new_filename), 'w', encoding='utf-8') as html:
                html.write(soup[5:-6])

test.html

<html>
<head>

    <title>It really helps me do great things for her</title>

    <meta name="description" content="What I LOVE to do and what I don't love">

    <p class="text_obisnuit2"><em>Buckingham has a new book called Love</em></p>

</body>
</html>

vascaraus | 1 post | Oct. 10, 2022, 8:38 p.m. | permalink