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shivam mitra
shivam mitra

Reputation: 232

Parsing a xml file from a specific web address using ElementTree in python

I am a beginner to concepts of ElementTree in python. I created a simple program to extract some information from a xml file which was saved on my local computer.

import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET
tree = ET.ElementTree(file='cricket.xml')
root = tree.getroot()
for child in root:
   print("%s - %s"%(child.get('srs'),child.get('mchDesc')))

Now, I want to use a xml file from a certain web address and extract information from that file. How can I do that without saving that file on local computer?

Link of xml file

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4574

Answers (1)

Joe Young
Joe Young

Reputation: 5875

You can use a combination of ElementTree's fromstring() method and the requests module's requests.get() to accomplish this.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html#parsing-xml

fromstring() parses XML from a string directly into an Element, which is the root element of the parsed tree.

Install the requests module:

pip install requests

Use the requests.get() to get your xml file from the url as a string. Pass that into the fromstring() function.

import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET
import requests
tree = ET.fromstring(requests.get('http://synd.cricbuzz.com/j2me/1.0/livematches.xml').text)
for child in tree:
   print("%s - %s"%(child.get('srs'),child.get('mchDesc')))

Results:

None - None
India tour of Sri Lanka, 2015 - Cricbuzz Cup - SL vs IND
Australia tour of Ireland, 2015 - IRE vs AUS
New Zealand tour of South Africa, 2015 - RSA vs NZ
Royal London One-Day Cup, 2015 - SUR vs KENT
Royal London One-Day Cup, 2015 - ESS vs YORKS

Upvotes: 4

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