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Miguel Rozsas
Miguel Rozsas

Reputation: 427

How to find the value of a specific attribute of a <div >

Well, first of all I am not sure if it is an atrribute. If it is not, please tell me the right name. The page has a div tag with the general format:

<div class="top" data-src="/a/path/to/another/page.html" id="id_random" style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;">

I want to retrieve the value of 'data-src' attribute (?) above, which is "/a/path/to/another/page.html", using python/bs4.

I already have the html code above in a variable named target_div and I have tried things like:

target_div.find(id='data-src')

or

target_div.find ('meta', {'name':'data-src'})

or 

target_div.find (attrs={'name' : 'data-src'})

Please, how to find "data-src" and its value inside a div ?

best regards,

Upvotes: 1

Views: 239

Answers (1)

game0ver
game0ver

Reputation: 1290

You can try with this:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

target_div = '''<div class="top" data-src="/a/path/to/another/page.html" id="id_random" style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;">'''

soup = BeautifulSoup(target_div, 'html.parser')
print soup.find('div', class_='top')['data-src']

The result should be:

/a/path/to/another/page.html

Upvotes: 2

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