Get HTML values in python

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I am kinda new to python so please cut me some slack. I have a webpage that has a specific tag that I would like to get the value from. Is there some sort of python library I can use to get the value of that tag? Thank you.

pythonforbeginners.com/beautifulsoup

ernie
– ernie

2015-02-24 19:09:10 +00:00
Commented Feb 24, 2015 at 19:09 — ernie
– ernie, Commented Feb 24, 2015 at 19:09

user4600699 · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-24 19:22:54Z

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If it is valid xml, you can use xml.etree.ElementTree. If not, the preferrable way to deal with html is BeautifulSoup

import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(your)
print soup.find('span')[0].contents

Something like that i believe

answered Feb 24, 2015 at 19:22

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Steven Kryskalla Over a year ago

BeautifulSoup actually uses lxml now (optionally), and lxml can handle invalid XML!

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