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JohnnyW
JohnnyW

Reputation: 493

Python Beautiful Soup extracting data within a div tag itself

I am trying to use Pythons beautifulSoup to pull data from an HTML file. The following line of HTML is the one I'm interested in.

<div class="myself" title="[email protected] [11:07:27 AM]">
     <nobr>Name</nobr></div>

I want to extract the title (with the email and time stamp). I am able to access the class with...

find('div', attrs={'class':'myself'}))

I am able to print the entire contents of the div from there or the info in tags within the div, but I can't figure out how to get the title because it's within the same div tag

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3685

Answers (2)

alecxe
alecxe

Reputation: 474151

Attributes can be retrieved in a dictionary-like manner:

A tag may have any number of attributes. You can access a tag’s attributes by treating the tag like a dictionary.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup(data)
div = soup.find("div", class_="myself", title=True)
print(div["title"])

Upvotes: 5

mmachine
mmachine

Reputation: 926

Use may this method

>>>import bs4
>>>html_string = "<div class="myself" title="[email protected] [11:07:27 AM]">
 <nobr>Name</nobr></div>"
>>>title_string = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html_string).div.attrs['title']
>>>print(title_string)
'[email protected] [11:07:27 AM]'

Upvotes: 0

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