Issue with parsing HTML class elements using beautifulsoup

Question

url = 'http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3728-Balcary-Bay-Champaign-IL-61822/89057727_zpid/'
page = urllib2.urlopen(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)

info = soup.findAll('span',{'itemtype':'http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates'}) #this tag + class combination found 4 matches, 4th one was the required one, just selecting that here
for form in info:
        b= form.find('meta')['content']
print b

This is the snapshot of the code i am using to get the latitude and longitude information from Zillow. I can pin point the code where the latitude and longitude information is stored using span and itemtype. The place where I am parsing this data from has a code similar to the one below:

<span itemprop="geo" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates">
<meta content="40.12938" itemprop="latitude">
<meta content="-88.30766" itemprop="longitude">
</span>

I am able to get the latitude information but unable to get the longitude information. Can someone help me in getting this information?

Output of the code:

>>> ================================ RESTART ================================
>>> 
40.12938
>>>

Intended output:

>>> ================================ RESTART ================================
>>> 
40.12938 -88.30766
>>>

Deelaka · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-22 10:27:55Z

1

the form.find() finds the first result which is <meta content="40.12938" itemprop="latitude"> but instead use the form.find_all() method to return all the results and then you can add them to a list using a list comprehension as depicted below:

url = 'http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3728-Balcary-Bay-Champaign-IL-61822/89057727_zpid/'
page = urllib2.urlopen(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)

info = soup.findAll('span',{'itemtype':'http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates'}) #this tag + class combination found 4 matches, 4th one was the required one, just selecting that here
cordinates = [i['content'] for i in info[0].find_all('meta')]

print cordinates

it would produce:

[u'40.12938', u'-88.30766']

edited Nov 22, 2013 at 10:27

answered Nov 22, 2013 at 10:21

Deelaka

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