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Bruno 'Shady'
Bruno 'Shady'

Reputation: 4516

How can I get an specific value in a webpage?

I have some <div>s and other stuff in a site and the specific line in the middle of inumerous divs

<input name="extWarrantyProds" type="hidden" value="23814298 ^ true"/>

How can I get the "value" part from this code, which it is in the middle of a site with other stuff ?

I'm trying with urllib but I don't even know where to start =/

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3005

Answers (3)

Acorn
Acorn

Reputation: 50547

import lxml.html as lh

html = '''
<input name="extWarrantyProds" type="hidden" value="23814298 ^ true"/>
'''

# If you want to parse from a URL:
# tree = lh.parse('http://example.com')

tree = lh.fromstring(html)

print tree.xpath("//input[@name='extWarrantyProds']/@value")

Upvotes: 3

vdbuilder
vdbuilder

Reputation: 12974

The easiest way I can think of:

import urllib

urlStr = "http://www..."

fileObj = urllib.urlopen(urlStr)

for line in fileObj:
    if ('<input name="extWarrantyProds"' in line):
        startIndex = line.find('value="') + 7
        endIndex = line.find('"',startIndex)
        print line[startIndex:endIndex]

Upvotes: 3

kichik
kichik

Reputation: 34734

No need for anything too fancy if that's all you need. Download the page using urllib and look for the value using re.findall().

import re
import urllib

url = 'http://...'
html = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
matches = re.findall('<input name="extWarrantyProds.*?>', x, re.DOTALL)
for i in matches:
  print re.findall('value="(.*?)"', i)

Upvotes: 1

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