CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonbeautifulsoup
colicab
colicab

Reputation: 65

How to get href out of certain html class using Python BeautifulSoup

This is a piece of my HTML code named soup. It's already a BeautifulSoup object

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<form action="/search.php" method="get">
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<input name="search" type="text" id="search" size="50" value="nikita 03x02" class="inputCool" />&#160;
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<br /><table class="tabel" align="center" width="80%" border="0"><tr><td><img src="images/television.png" /></td><td><a href="serie/Nikita/3/2/Innocence" debug="68217">Nikita - 03x02 - Innocence</a></td></tr><tr><p>
</p><p>
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            </tr></table></div>

I would like to get the href (ie "serie/Nikita/3/2/Innocence") from the class=tabel using BeautifulSoup and python

For the moment I can extract it using 

soup.find(attrs = {'class':'tabel'}).find('a')['href']

But this seems a little convoluted. Is there a more simple (pyhonic) way to get this url?

Cheers

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1827

Answers (1)

Arovit
Arovit

Reputation: 3699

Try this - 

page = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
link_pat = SoupStrainer('a')
links = BeautifulSoup(page, parseOnlyThese=link_pat)
for link in links:
    url = link['href'].strip('/')

Upvotes: 2

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