How to re.search html source with regex in python

Question

I bust my head but can not sort this out.

numbers, names are fictional. but the idea is like this

I read a link like 'https://graph.facebook.com/123'

this results to source code:

{
   "id": "123",
   "name": "John Doe",
   "first_name": "John",
   "last_name": "Doe",
   "link": "http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Doe/123",
   "gender": "male",
   "locale": "en_US"
}

i want to extract all the information of id, name ,etc.

I try this but it fails

    link = 'https://graph.facebook.com/123'
    result = browser.open(link)
    text = result.read()
    result.close()
    id = re.search('"id": "(.*?)",', cont)

regex '"id": "(.*?)",' seems to be correct, but nothind is returned.. Why???

nosklo · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-22 20:43:31Z

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That seems JSON, you don't want to use regex to parse that.

link = 'https://graph.facebook.com/123'
result = browser.open(link)
data = json.load(result)
print data['id']

answered Dec 22, 2010 at 20:43

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