How to Parse XML from website using python

Question

I'm trying parse XML from URL, but i got error FileNotFoundError

where I'm doing wrong?

Here's my code:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import requests
url = "http://cs.stir.ac.uk/~soh/BD2spring2022/assignmentdata.php"
params = {'data':'spurpyr'}
response = requests.get (url, params)
xml_content = response.content

tree = ET.parse(xml_content)
root = tree.getroot()
print(root.tag)

Tecnical Compute · Accepted Answer · 2022-04-09 13:45:53Z

1

ET.parse parses from a file, instead of ET.parse try using ET.fromstring and that would probably help. I can't test your specific case since the URL you have written is giving me an error. So, try changing your code to this

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import requests
url = "http://cs.stir.ac.uk/~soh/BD2spring2022/assignmentdata.php"
params = {'data':'spurpyr'}
response = requests.get (url, params)
xml_content = response.content

root = ET.fromstring(xml_content)
print(root.tag)

edited Apr 9, 2022 at 13:45

answered Apr 9, 2022 at 13:39

Tecnical Compute

3172 silver badges9 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

7 Comments

tony michael Over a year ago

I got this error AttributeError: 'xml.etree.ElementTree.Element' object has no attribute 'getroot'

Tecnical Compute Over a year ago

Yeah, my bad. I'll edit my answer

Tecnical Compute Over a year ago

Yeah, I edited it. It should work now.

tony michael Over a year ago

How to save children to separate variables, say var_a and var_b, I have run for loop to get them, how do i save them for child in root: print(child.tag, child.attrib)

Tecnical Compute Over a year ago

I am not sure what you are saying but I suppose that you may need a dictionary like this dict = {} and in the next line you can do this for child in root: dict[child.tag] = child.attrib.

|

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

How to Parse XML from website using python

1 Answer 1

7 Comments

Your Answer

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

1 Answer 1

7 Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Related