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flefin
flefin

Reputation: 65

how to get the text in the html in python

I wanted to capture some of the text in html using python. example..

#!/usr/bin/python
import urllib

open = urllib.urlopen('http://localhost/main.php')
read = open.read()
print read

and this source code of the target url

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
This is body!
</body>
</html>

and how if I just want to catch the words "This is body!" only!? Please guys, help me with this matter!

For example, HTML is replaced by this one:

<table width=90% align=center>
  <tr>
    <td>The information available on this site freely accessible to the public</td>
  <tr>
</table>
<table class=adminlist border=0 width=90% cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0 align=center>
  <tr>
    <td rowspan=5 colspan=2><img src=images/Forum.png><br></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><i><b>Phone</b></td><td>: +61 2 4446 5552</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><i><b>Name</b></td><td>: Stundet</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><i><b>Class</b></td>
    <td>: Summer</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><i><b>Email</b></td>
    <td>: [email protected]</td>
  </tr>
</table>

and i want to make this output:

Phone : +61 2 4446 5552
Name  : Student
Class : Summer
Email : [email protected]

only caught the words the core of the html.. :)

Upvotes: 3

Views: 371

Answers (2)

Constantinius
Constantinius

Reputation: 35039

Try beautiful soup.

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

...

soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
soup.findAll("body").string

Upvotes: 6

John Keyes
John Keyes

Reputation: 5604

Use BeautifulSoup:

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

html = """
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
This is body!
</body>
</html>
"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(html)

print soup.find('body').string

Upvotes: 4

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