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Re: beautiful soup get class info

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On 03/06/2014 02:22 PM, teddybubu@gmail.com wrote:
> I am using beautifulsoup to get the title and date of the website.
> title is working fine but I am not able to pull the date. Here is the code in the url:
>
>   <span class="date">October 22, 2011</span>
>
> In Python, I am using the following code:
> date1 = soup.span.text
> data=soup.find_all(date="value")
>
> Results in:
>
> []
> March 5, 2014
>
> What is the proper way to get this info?
> Thanks.
>

I believe it's the 'attrs' argument.
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/

# Workaround the 'class' problem:
data = soup.find_all(attrs={'class': 'date'})

I haven't tested it, but it's worth looking into.

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beautiful soup get class info teddybubu@gmail.com - 2014-03-06 12:22 -0800
  Re: beautiful soup get class info John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2014-03-06 20:58 +0000
    Re: beautiful soup get class info teddybubu@gmail.com - 2014-03-06 13:38 -0800
      Re: beautiful soup get class info John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2014-03-06 22:28 +0000
        Re: beautiful soup get class info teddybubu@gmail.com - 2014-03-06 17:37 -0800
          Re: beautiful soup get class info Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-03-07 01:48 +0000
  Re: beautiful soup get class info Christopher Welborn <cjwelborn@live.com> - 2014-03-11 21:04 -0500
  Re: beautiful soup get class info Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-03-12 08:36 +0100

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