select single element and its value - powershell script to python

Question

I have this script in powershell to get value of visitors at webpage:

$visitors = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://footballarena.org
$visitors = $visitors.AllElements | where class -EQ "right" | select -ExpandProperty innertext
$visitors = $visitors -replace '\D+'
$visitors | Export-Csv $env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\export.txt

The output is only numerical value of single DIV class "right"

Now I need to do the same script in python. I can read and store the page:

web = urllib.request.urlopen("https://footballarena.org").read()

Now I need to select value of "161" from this single class:

<div class="right">161 online</div>

I found this question, but I'm not sure how to use it - Python Selenium selecting div class

Could anybody help please?

Selenium may work too but seems like perfect use case for BeautifulSoup — chickity china chinese chicken
– chickity china chinese chicken, Commented Jan 21, 2017 at 21:44

chickity china chinese chicken · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-21 23:29:47Z

1

Can do it with BeautifulSoup, install with pip3 install beautifulsoup4, then something like:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib.request

myurl = "https://footballarena.org"

html_doc = urllib.request.urlopen(myurl).read()

soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser')

result = soup.findAll("div", { "class" : "right" })

print(result[0].text.split()[0])

outputs:

206 # users currently online

Can probably be improved, but that's the general idea. Hope it helps.

answered Jan 21, 2017 at 23:29

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InLoveWithTux Over a year ago

Thank you so much! I've just began with python and you helped me a lot!

chickity china chinese chicken Over a year ago

Very welcome, glad to be able to help you! Hope your learning python goes well, this was the first time I tried beautifulsoup, but that's because python makes learning new packages easy, quick and fun. Cheers and good luck!

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