scrape beautifulsoup python html attribute value
xmlData = None
with open('conf//test1.xml', 'r') as xmlFile:
xmlData = xmlFile.read()
xmlDecoded = xmlData
xmlSoup = BeautifulSoup(xmlData, 'html.parser')
repElemList = xmlSoup.find_all('repeatingelement')
for repElem in repElemList:
print("Processing repElem...")
repElemID = repElem.get('id')
repElemName = repElem.get('name')
print("Attribute id = %s" % repElemID)
print("Attribute name = %s" % repElemName)
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>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup('<META NAME="City" content="Austin">')
>>> soup.find("meta", {"name":"City"})
<meta name="City" content="Austin" />
>>> soup.find("meta", {"name":"City"})['content']
u'Austin'