Python requests module doesn't return full page during get request

Question

When I make a get request to this url: http://www.waterwaysguide.org.au/waterwaysguide/access-point/4980/partial with a browser a full html page is returned. However when I make a GET request with the python requests module only a part of the html is returned and the core content is missing.

How do I change my code so that I can get the data that is missing?

This is the code I am using;

import requests
def get_data(point_num):
    base_url = 'http://www.waterwaysguide.org.au/waterwaysguide/access-point/{}/partial'
    r = requests.get(base_url)
    html_content = r.text
    print(html_content)
get_data(4980)

The result of running the code is shown below. The content inside the div class="view view-waterway-access-point-page... is missing.

<div>
  <div class="modal-header">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close">
      <span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span>
    </button>
    <h4 class="modal-title">
        Point of Interest detail    </h4>

  </div>
  <div class="modal-body">
    <div class="view view-waterway-access-point-page view-id-waterway_access_point_page view-display-id-page view-dom-id-c855bf9afdfe945979f96b2301d55784">
        
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
</div>  </div>
  <div class="modal-footer">
    
    <button type="button" id="closeRemoteModal" class="btn btn-action" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
  </div>
</div>

Answer 1

The following approach displays the missing content inside the div class="view view-waterway-access-point-page...

>>> from urllib.request import Request, urlopen
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> url = 'http://www.waterwaysguide.org.au/waterwaysguide/access-
point/4980/partial'
>>> req = Request(url,headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})
>>> webpage = urlopen(req).read()
>>> print(webpage)

Answer 2

I found the error that I had made. I never used the 'point_num' argument that I pass to the function so my request was not going to the correct url.

The code is working now that I have changed the line to

r = requests.get(base_url.format(point_num))