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Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements

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Subject Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements
Date Thu, 26 Nov 2015 09:10:43 +1100
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On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 9:04 AM, ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, I guess that makes sense.  So, I just tried the script below, and got nothing...
>
> import requests
> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>
> r = requests.get("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_place_names")
> soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content)
> print soup.find_all("a",{"title"})

The second argument to find_all is supposed to be a dict, not a set,
and it's only useful if you want to put some restriction on the
titles. To simply enumerate all the titles, try this:

[a.get("title") for a in soup.find_all("a")]

ChrisA

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Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 12:42 -0800
  Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-11-25 20:55 +0000
    Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Grobu <snailcoder@retrosite.invalid> - 2015-11-25 23:30 +0100
      Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 14:48 -0800
        Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 10:06 +1100
          Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Grobu <snailcoder@retrosite.invalid> - 2015-11-26 00:44 +0100
            Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-11-26 01:53 +0200
              Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 10:59 +1100
            Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 10:54 +1100
            Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Grobu <snailcoder@retrosite.invalid> - 2015-11-26 02:05 +0100
        Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Grobu <snailcoder@retrosite.invalid> - 2015-11-26 00:33 +0100
          Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 15:37 -0800
            Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 10:42 +1100
  Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 14:04 -0800
    Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 09:10 +1100
  Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements TP <wingusr@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 17:15 -0800
  Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 14:49 +0000

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