Hello, I'm using beautiful soup (in Python). I have such hidden input object: <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-531f740522f8c290ead9b88f3da026d2" value="form-531f740522f8c290ead9b88f3da026d2" /> I need in id/value. Here is my code: mainPageData = cookieOpener.open('http://page.com').read() soupHandler = BeautifulSo...
Starting from an Html input like this: <p> <a href="http://www.foo.com">this if foo</a> <a href="http://www.bar.com">this if bar</a> </p> using BeautifulSoup, i would like to change this Html in: <p> <a href="http://www.foo.com">this if foo[1]</a> <a href="http://www.bar.com">this if bar[2]</a> </p> saving parsed links ...
Starting from an Html input like this: <p> <a href="http://www.foo.com" rel="nofollow">this is foo</a> <a href="http://www.bar.com" rel="nofollow">this is bar</a> </p> is it possible to modify the <a> node values ("this i foo" and "this is bar") adding the suffix "PARSED" to the value without recreating the all link? The result need t...
Starting from an Html input like this: <p> <a href="http://www.foo.com">this if foo</a> <a href="http://www.bar.com">this if bar</a> </p> using BeautifulSoup, i would like to change this Html in: <p> <a href="http://www.foo.com">this if foo</a><b>OK</b> <a href="http://www.bar.com">this if bar</a><b>OK</b> </p> Is it po...
Hi, My local airport disgracefully blocks users without IE, and looks awful. I want to write a Python scripts that would get the contents of the Arrival and Departures pages every few minutes, and show them in a more readable manner. My tools of choice are mechanize for cheating the site to believe I use IE, and BeautifulSoup for parsi...
I'm trying to scrape all the inner html from the <p> elements in a web page using BeautifulSoup. There are internal tags, but I don't care, I just want to get the internal text. For example, for: <p>Red</p> <p><i>Blue</i></p> <p>Yellow</p> <p>Light <b>green</b></p> How can I extract: Red Blue Yellow Light green Neither .string nor...
Hi, I am writing a small site decorator to make my local airport site work with standard HTML. On my local computer, I use Python's mechanize and BeautifulSoup packages to scrape and parse the site contents, and everything seems to work just fine. I have installed these packages via apt-get. On my shared hosting site (at DreamHost) I ...
I'm trying to translate an online html page into text. I have a problem with this structure: <div align="justify"><b>Available in <a href="http://www.example.com.be/book.php?number=1"> French</a> and <a href="http://www.example.com.be/book.php?number=5"> English</a>. </div> Here is its representation as a python string: '<d...
hey guys does beautifulSoup strips css and javascript content? after using content3 = ''.join(BeautifulSoup(content).findAll(text=True)) i still have them lingering around. ...
I want to get correctly delimited text out of BeautifulSoup, turning tags into whitespace if necessary. The problem is that newlines are collapsed and tags like <br/> are not rendered as whitespace. <div class="companyInfo"> <p class="identInfo"> <acronym title="Standard Industrial Code"> SIC </acronym> ...
Hi, Can anyone tell me how i can get the table in a HTML page which has a the most rows? I'm using BeautifulSoup. There is one little problem though. Sometimes, there seems to be one table nested inside another. <table> <tr> <td> <table> <tr> <td></td> <t...
So I'm trying to make a Python script that downloads webcomics and puts them in a folder on my desktop. I've found a few similar programs on here that do something similar, but nothing quite like what I need. The one that I found most similar is right here (http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/850927-problem-using-urllib-download-imag...
I have an XML document which reads like this: <xml> <web:Web> <web:Total>4000</web:Total> <web:Offset>0</web:Offset> </web:Web> </xml> my question is how do I access them using a library like BeautifulSoup in python? xmlDom.web["Web"].Total ? does not work? ...
Could someone tell me whats a better way to clean up bad HTML so BeautifulSoup can handle it - should one use the massage methods of BeautifulSoup or clean it up using regular expressions? Thanks. ...
Hi, I'm trying to parse an XML file with BeautifulSoup. In all tutorials on the net, the content of the xml is given like xml = "<doc><tag1>Contents 1<tag2>Contents 2<tag1>Contents 3" soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(xml) but I want to give only xml file's path. In mechanize one can use get_data() method but it only works for html files. A...
Here's an example: <p class='animal'>cats</p> <p class='attribute'>they meow</p> <p class='attribute'>they have fur</p> <p class='animal'>turtles</p> <p class='attribute'>they don't make noises</p> <p class='attribute'>they have shells</p> If each animal was in a separate element I could just iterate over the elements. That would be g...
Dear all, i am parsing some html form with Beautiful soup. Basically i´ve around 60 input fields mostly radio buttons and checkboxes. So far this works with the following code: from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup x = open('myfile.html','r').read() out = open('outfile.csv','w') soup = BeautifulSoup(x) values = soup.findAll('input',...
Hey again all, I have the following script so far: from mechanize import Browser from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup import re import urllib2 br = Browser() br.open("http://www.foo.com") html = br.response().read(); soup = BeautifulSoup(html) items = soup.findAll(id="info") and it runs perfectly, and results in the following ...
I am currrently using BeautifulSoup to scrape some websites, however I have a problem with some specific characters, the code inside UnicodeDammit seems to indicate this (again) are some Microsoft-invented ones. I'm using the newest version of BeautifulSoup(3.0.8.1) as I am still using python2.5 The following code illustrates my proble...
Dear Python Experts, I have written the following trial code to retreive the title of legislative acts from the European parliament. import urllib2 from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup search_url = "http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A7-2010-%.4d&language=EN" for number in xran...