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Kiran
Kiran

Reputation: 8548

How would I extract the value of this HTML element attribute with Beautiful Soup?

I am developing a small tool to scrape a webpage. I am using Beautiful Soup. I would like to fetch the class id from the page. The HTML code looks something like this: 

<span class='class_id' id='New_line'></span>

How would I obtain class_id?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5735

Answers (2)

wal-o-mat
wal-o-mat

Reputation: 7344

This answer refers to an older version of the question where beautifulsoup has not been mentioned

You can use LXML and iterate over all elements asking them for the value of their "class" attribute. LXML is a library for parsing XML documents.

Like, for example:

from lxml import etree
root = etree.parse(filename).getroot()

for span in root.iterdescendants("span"):
    cls = span.attrib.get("class")

Upvotes: 5

luc
luc

Reputation: 43146

Does the following example may help you?

>>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as B
>>> s = B("<span class='class_id' id='New_line'></span>")
>>> s.span.attrs
[(u'class', u'class_id'), (u'id', u'New_line')]

Upvotes: 3

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