I'm reading up on BeautifulSoup to screen-scrape some pretty heavy html pages. Going through the documentation of BeautifulSoup I can't seem to find a easy way to select child elements. Given the html: <div id="top"> <div>Content</div> <div> <div>Content I Want</div> </div> </div> I want a easy way to to get the "Content I ...
hello, currently im making some web scrap script. and i was choice PAMIE to use my script. actually im new to python and programming. so i have no idea ,if i use PAMIE,it really helpful to make script to relate with win32-python. ok my problem is , while im making script,i was encounter two probelm. first , i want to let work my script w...
It doesn't say it anywhere in the documentation, it only shows how to parse the tags. ...
I just tried to run BeautifulSoup (3.1.0.1) with Jython (2.5.1) and I was amazed to see how much slower it was than CPython. Parsing a page (http://www.fixprotocol.org/specifications/fields/5000-5999) with CPython took just under a second (0.844 second to be exact). With Jython it took 564 seconds - almost 700 times as much. Can anyone ...
If Beautiful Soup gives me an anchor tag like this: <a class="blah blah" id="blah blah" href="link.html"></a> How would I retrieve the value of the href attribute? ...
Im trying to use the md5 algorithm on web pages to avoid seeing duplicates. Is there an easy way to convert the result from beautifulsoup into a string which is digestible by md5? Many thanks ...
I'm trying to count the number of tags in the 'soup' from a beautifulsoup result. I'd like to use a regular expression but am having trouble. The code Ive tried is as follows: reg_exp_tag = re.compile("<[^>*>") tags = re.findall(reg_exp_tag, soup(cast as a string)) but re will not allow reg_exp_tag, giving an unexpected end of regular...
BeautifulSoup newbe... Need help Here is the code sample... from mechanize import Browser from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup mec = Browser() #url1 = "http://www.wines.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=21" url2 = "http://www.wines.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=4866" page = mec.open(url2) html = page.read() soup = BeautifulSou...
I have been trying to get BeautifulSoup (3.1.0.1)to parse a html page that has a lot of javascript that generates html inside tags. One example fragment looks like this : <html><head><body><div> <script type='text/javascript'> if(ii > 0) { html += '<span id="hoverMenuPosSepId" class="hoverMenuPosSep">|</span>' } html += '<div class=...
I need to pull out all of the "NodeGroup" elements out of an XML file: <Database> <Get> <Data> <NodeGroups> <NodeGroup> <AssociateNode ConnID="6748763_2" /> <AssociateNode ConnID="6748763_1" /> <Data DataType="Capacity">2</Data> <Name>Alpha</Name> </NodeGroup> <...
I'm using this code to find all interesting links in a page: soup.findAll('a', href=re.compile('^notizia.php\?idn=\d+')) And it does its job pretty well. Unfortunately inside that a tag there are a lot of nested tags, like font, b and different things... I'd like to get just the text content, without any other html tag. Example of l...
Currently I have code that does something like this: soup = BeautifulSoup(value) for tag in soup.findAll(True): if tag.name not in VALID_TAGS: tag.extract() soup.renderContents() Except I don't want to throw away the contents inside the invalid tag. How do I get rid of the tag but keep the contents inside ...
Hey, Here's a piece of HTML code (from delicious): <h4> <a rel="nofollow" class="taggedlink " href="http://imfy.us/" >Generate Secure Links with Anonymous Referers & Anti-Bot Protection</a> <span class="saverem"> <em class="bookmark-actions"> <strong><a class="inlinesave action" href="/save?url=http%3A%2F%2Fimfy.us%2F&tit...
When i design our web-form then i see then my web-form is very small then my web page Because my form have only two field (two text-box two label) How i design it. then he look Beautiful. ...
In answer to a previous question, several people suggested that I use BeautifulSoup for my project. I've been struggling with their documentation and I just cannot parse it. Can somebody point me to the section where I should be able to translate this expression to a BeautifulSoup expression? hxs.select('//td[@class="altRow"][2]/a/@href...
I am trying to scrape http://www.co.jefferson.co.us/ats/displaygeneral.do?sch=000104 and get the "owner Name(s)" What I have works but is really ugly and not the best I am sure, so I am looking for a better way. Here is what I have: soup = BeautifulSoup(url_opener.open(url)) x = soup('table', text = re.compile("Owner Name"))...
I am using this simple code for l in bios: OpenThisLink = url + l response = urllib2.urlopen(OpenThisLink) to open about 200 urls and search them with regex (and BeautifulSoup), but after a dozen or so I get these errors and IDLE quits. What do they mean? How can I handle them? Thank you. Traceback (most recent call last): ...
Can I combine these two blocks into one: Edit: Any other method than combining loops like Yacoby did in the answer. for tag in soup.findAll(['script', 'form']): tag.extract() for tag in soup.findAll(id="footer"): tag.extract() Also can I multiple blocks into one: for tag in soup.findAll(id="footer"): tag.extract() for ...
I've got a comma separated list in a table cell in an HTML document, but some of items in the list are linked: <table> <tr> <td>Names</td> <td>Fred, John, Barry, <a href="http://www.example.com/">Roger</a>, James</td> </tr> </table> I've been using beautiful soup to parse the html, and I can get to the table, but ...
Hi, I am trying to extract attributes of frame tag which is inside document.write function on a page like this: <script language="javascript"> . . . document.write('<frame name="nav" src="/nav/index_nav.html" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" border = "no" noresize>'); if (anchor != "") { document.write(...