first function works, actuall xml parser has still problems with certain xml types

.gitignore

@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 /venv
-
+/spiders/pages/*
+/spiders/output/*

main.py

@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ list_of_fdbs = ["foerderinfo.bund.de"]
 
 # doing the crawling of government websites
 
-# spider = fdb_spider(config)
+spider = fdb_spider(config)
 
 # spider.download_entry_list_pages_of_funding_databases(list_of_fdbs)
 
-# spider.parse_entry_list_data2dictionary(list_of_fdbs)
+spider.parse_entry_list_data2dictionary(list_of_fdbs)
 
-# spider.download_entry_data_htmls(list_of_fdbs)
+spider.download_entry_data_htmls(list_of_fdbs)
 
 # spider.parse_entry_data2dictionary(list_of_fdbs)
 

spiders/config.yaml

@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@
 foerderinfo.bund.de:
   domain: 'http://foerderinfo.bund.de'
   entry-list:
-    link1:  		'https://www.foerderinfo.bund.de/SiteGlobals/Forms/foerderinfo/expertensuche/Servicesuche_Formular.html?gtp=33498_list%253D'
-    link2:		'#searchResults'
-    iteration-var-list:	[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]	
-    parent:  		'//html//body//form//table//tr//td//table//tr'
-    child-name:		'//td//a/text()'
-    child-link:		'//td//a/@href'
+    link1:  'https://www.foerderinfo.bund.de/SiteGlobals/Forms/foerderinfo/expertensuche/Servicesuche_Formular.html?gtp=33498_list%253D'
+    link2:  '#searchResults'
+    iteration-var-list:  '[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]'
+    parent:  '//html//body//form//table//tr//td//column//div.row//section.l-search-result-list'
+    child-name:  '//div.l-search-result-list_item//a//span.c-search-result__title'
+    child-link:  '//div.l-search-result-list_item//a/@href'
   entry:
     info-1:
       parent:  '//html//body//form//table'

spiders/fdb_spider.py

@@ -61,13 +61,13 @@ class fdb_spider(object):
 
                         # download the html page of the List of entrys
 
-                        response = urllib.request.urlopen(entry_list_link1 + string(i) + entry_list_link2)
+                        response = urllib.request.urlopen(entry_list_link1 + str(i) + entry_list_link2)
                         web_content = response.read().decode("UTF-8")
 
                         # save interim results to files
 
                         f = open("spiders/pages/" + key + str(i) + "entryList.html", "w+")
-                        f.write(webContent)
+                        f.write(web_content)
                         f.close
 
     def parse_entry_list_data2dictionary(self, list_of_fdbs):
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ class fdb_spider(object):
                 )
             
             for i in iteration_var_list:
+                print(i)
                 try:
                     # use soupparser to handle broken html
 
@@ -89,13 +90,17 @@ class fdb_spider(object):
                         "spiders/pages/" + fdb + str(i) + "entryList.html"
                     )
 
-                    #                for e in tree.iter():
+                    
+
+                    print('oioioioioioioioioioioiOIOI')
+
+                    for e in tree.iter():
+                        
+                        print(e.tag)
                     #
-                    #                    print(e.tag)
-                    #
-                    #                 for e in tree.xpath('//html//body//form//table//tr//td//table//tr'):
-                    #
-                    #                     #print(etree.tostring(e).decode())
+                    for e in tree.xpath('//html//body//form//table//tr//td//table//tr'):
+                    
+                        print(etree.tostring(e).decode())
 
                     dictionary_entry_list = {}
 
@@ -121,6 +126,8 @@ class fdb_spider(object):
                             + "]"
                             + fdb_conf_entry_list_child_link
                         )
+            
+                        print('oi' + name)
 
                         if len(name) > 0:
                             dictionary_entry_list[n] = {}
@@ -183,7 +190,7 @@ class fdb_spider(object):
     def parse_entry_data2dictionary(self, list_of_fdbs):
         for fdb in list_of_fdbs:
             
-             try:
+            try:
                 iteration_var_list = eval(self.config.get(fdb).get("entry-list").get("iteration-var-list"))
             except Exception as e:
                 print(