I am trying to parse information (html tables) from this site: http://www.511virginia.org/RoadConditions.aspx?j=All&r=1
Currently I am using BeautifulSoup and the code I have looks like this
from mechanize import Browser
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
mech = Browser()
url = "http://www.511virginia.org/RoadConditions.aspx?j=All&r=1"
page = mech.open(url)
html = page.read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
table = soup.find("table")
rows = table.findAll('tr')[3]
cols = rows.findAll('td')
roadtype = cols[0].string
start = cols.[1].string
end = cols[2].string
condition = cols[3].string
reason = cols[4].string
update = cols[5].string
entry = (roadtype, start, end, condition, reason, update)
print entry
The issue is with the start and end columns. They just get printed as "None"
Output:
(u'Rt. 613N (Giles County)', None, None, u'Moderate', u'snow or ice', u'01/13/2010 10:50 AM')
I know that they get stored in the columns list, but it seems that the extra link tag is messing up the parsing with the original html looking like this:
<td headers="road-type" class="ConditionsCellText">Rt. 613N (Giles County)</td>
<td headers="start" class="ConditionsCellText"><a href="conditions.aspx?lat=37.43036753&long=-80.51118005#viewmap">Big Stony Ck Rd; Rt. 635E/W (Giles County)</a></td>
<td headers="end" class="ConditionsCellText"><a href="conditions.aspx?lat=37.43036753&long=-80.51118005#viewmap">Cabin Ln; Rocky Mount Rd; Rt. 721E/W (Giles County)</a></td>
<td headers="condition" class="ConditionsCellText">Moderate</td>
<td headers="reason" class="ConditionsCellText">snow or ice</td>
<td headers="update" class="ConditionsCellText">01/13/2010 10:50 AM</td>
so what should be printed is:
(u'Rt. 613N (Giles County)', u'Big Stony Ck Rd; Rt. 635E/W (Giles County)', u'Cabin Ln; Rocky Mount Rd; Rt. 721E/W (Giles County)', u'Moderate', u'snow or ice', u'01/13/2010 10:50 AM')
Any suggestions or help is appreciated, and thank you in advance.