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Reputation: 67

How can I extract the date part from this text in Beautiful Soup?

the text is :

<div class="fi-mu-list today" data-matchesdate="20180619">

I want to extract 20180619 from this.

I tried : 1)

mat = soup.select("div.fi-mu-list today > span.fi-mu-list__head__date") print(mat["data-matchesdate"])

output : TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not str

2) also tried print(mat)

output : []

Upvotes: 0

Views: 53

Answers (1)

Ajax1234
Ajax1234

Reputation: 71471

You can use BeautifulSoup.find:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup
s = '<div class="fi-mu-list today" data-matchesdate="20180619">'
result = soup(s, 'html.parser').find('div')['data-matchesdate']

Output:

'20180619'

Upvotes: 1

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