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Reputation: 18830

beautifulsoup: Parse Span Title

I am trying to parse a html page, I have successfully got to the sub area of the tree of the html dom but I am stuck in a place where there are span tags.

example: I initially parse the page as follows:

        user_url = base_url + str(user_id) + "/" + display_name
        user_page = urllib2.urlopen(user_url)
        souping_page = bs(user_page)
        badges = souping_page.body.find('div', attrs={'class': 'badges'})

badges will give me following:

<span><span title="3 gold badges"><span class="badge1"></span><span class="badgecount">3</span></span><span title="23 silver badges"><span class="badge2"></span><span class="badgecount">23</span></span><span title="43 bronze badges"><span class="badge3"></span><span class="badgecount">43</span></span></span>

But I am trying to extract <span title="3 gold badges"> and all the other span title attributes by traversing the dom structure. How can I do that in beautifulsoup.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 205

Answers (1)

aIKid
aIKid

Reputation: 28312

You can simply do this:

>>> badges.span.span
<span title="3 gold badges"><span class="badge1"></span><span class="badgecount">3</span></span>

Upvotes: 4

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