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Mert Nuhoglu
Mert Nuhoglu

Reputation: 10133

How to access a tag called "name" in BeautifulSoup

I want to access a tag called as "name" such as:

<contact><name>Yesügey</name><lastName>Yeşil</lastName><phone>+90 333 9695395</phone></contact>

Since "name" is a property of a BeautifulSoup tag object, I cannot access the child tag name:

>>> c1
<contact><name>Yesügey</name><lastname>Yeşil</lastname><phone>+90 333 9695395</p
hone></contact>
>>> c1.name
'contact'
>>> c1.lastname
<lastname>Yeşil</lastname>

Upvotes: 17

Views: 4116

Answers (5)

Jon Kiparsky
Jon Kiparsky

Reputation: 7743

Late answer, but I had the same issue when trying to find a <textarea name=COMMENTS>

My solution:

node = soup.find("textarea", attrs={"name": "COMMENTS"}

Upvotes: 0

WeaselFox
WeaselFox

Reputation: 7380

You can use the .find() method:

Examples:

c2.find('name')

<name>Yesügey</name>

c2.find('name').contents

Yesügey

Upvotes: 2

Adem &#214;ztaş
Adem &#214;ztaş

Reputation: 21446

You can try like this,

>>> soup=BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(content).findAll('name')
>>> for field in soup:
...     print field
... 
<name>Yesügey</name>

Or

print soup.find('name').string

Upvotes: 19

Supreet Sethi
Supreet Sethi

Reputation: 1806

Described is two different stratgies of accessing xml element name

>>> xmlstring = '<contact><name>Yesügey</name><lastName>Yeşil</lastName><phone>+90 333    9695395</phone></contact>'
>>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as Soup
>>> f = Soup(xmlstring)
>>> f.find('name')
<name>YesĂźgey</name>
>>> f.contact.name
u'contact'
>>>

Upvotes: 0

TerryA
TerryA

Reputation: 59974

Here's what I got:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as BS
soup = '<contact><name>Yesügey</name><lastName>Yeşil</lastName><phone>+90 333 9695395</phone></contact>'
soup = BS(soup)
print soup.find('name').string
# Prints YesĂźgey

So instead of calling the name tag, I simply find it and get what's inside it :).

Upvotes: 5

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