Re: beautiful soup get class info

From	Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Subject	Re: beautiful soup get class info
Date	2014-03-12 08:36 +0100
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Christopher Welborn wrote:

> 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.
 
Yes there are two ways to filtr by class:

>>> soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup("""
... <span class="one">alpha</span>
... <span class="two">beta</span>""")

Use attrs:

>>> soup.find_all(attrs={"class": "one"})
[<span class="one">alpha</span>]

Append an underscore:

>>> soup.find_all(class_="two")
[<span class="two">beta</span>]

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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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