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pythonbeautifulsoup
Ahmed Mukhtar
Ahmed Mukhtar

Reputation: 39

Unable to scrape data with beautiful soup in python

This is the code I want to scrape

<li id="shortlink">
<strong>Short link:</strong>
<input id="short-link-input" type="text" value="http://tnydu.biz/DfBCAEk" onclick="dbzglobal_event_adapter();">
</li>

The script i am using is this:

 shortlink=soup.select("#short-link-input value")
    
            print shortlink

but it gives [] output and I cannot extract the link for it. Available methods are find and select. can someone help please

Upvotes: 0

Views: 181

Answers (2)

Ishaan
Ishaan

Reputation: 886

Try this

elem = soup.find('input',{'id':'short-link-input'})
print elem.get('value')

Upvotes: 2

koffein
koffein

Reputation: 1882

Try this:

shortlink=soup.select("#short-link-input")[0]['value']

select-method returns a list of elements. To get the value of an attribute, you have to call its get-method or use the attribute's name as key-index

Upvotes: 0

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