How to convert html data using python

Question

I am looking for piece of advice as I am newbie to python.

Let's imagine that I have multiple data blocks similar to following one:

<td> <a href="address.com" title=title">some title</a> <br /> aaa<br /> bbb<br /> ccc</td>

Sometimes number of br differs and is not constant for all blocks.

My purpose is to extract data from inside td block to file however I stuck here.

Is it regular expression here the best approach?

Thank you in advance.

BeautifulSoup may suit your need, if you're dealing with lots of these data blocks. — tyteen4a03
– tyteen4a03, Commented Jun 9, 2013 at 19:09

Blender · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-09 19:28:53Z

5

Parse the HTML with a HTML parser like BeautifulSoup (pip install beautifulsoup4):

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html = """
<td> <a href="address.com" title=title">some title</a> <br /> aaa<br /> bbb<br /> ccc</td>
"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(html)

for td in soup.find_all('td'):
    print(td.get_text())

And the result:

 some title  aaa bbb ccc

edited Jun 9, 2013 at 19:28

answered Jun 9, 2013 at 19:11

Blender

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