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pjdavis
pjdavis

Reputation: 345

Converting BeautifulSoup object into list to extract data

From the following two lines of python code I get the following html output which belongs to class 'bs4.BeautifulSoup' 

site_link = soup.find_all('a', string='Aberdeen')[0]
row = site_link.findParent('td').findParent('tr').findAll('td')

 <html><body><p>[</p><td><a href="../networks/site-info?site_id=ABD">Aberdeen</a><br/>
<a class="smalltext" href="https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/assets/graphs/ABD_weekly_m.png">Timeseries Graph</a></td>,
 <td class="center"><span class="bg_low2 bold">48 (2 Low)</span></td>,
 <td class="center"><span class="bg_low1 bold">4 (1 Low)</span></td>,
 <td class="center"><span title="Not Measured">n/m</span></td>,
 <td class="center"><span class="bg_low1 bold">2 (1 Low)</span></td>,
 <td class="center"><span class="bg_low1 bold">6 (1 Low)
 </span>
</td>,
 <td>19/08/2017<br/>17:00:00</td>]</body></html>

How can I make it into a list whereby I can extract items so that, e.g. where my list is called mylist:

>>>print(mylist[1].text)
48 (2 Low)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 9025

Answers (1)

cs95
cs95

Reputation: 402493

You're looking for tag.find_all:

mylist = soup.find_all('span', class_='bg_low2 bold')

Now, mylist contains all your span tags, and you can access the ith span's data with mylist[i].text.

Upvotes: 3

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