Working with XML data from Python API request

Question

I'm trying to retrieve data from an API, however it appears to be returning in XML format.

response = requests.get('https string')
print(response.text)

Output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><RegisterSearch TotalResultsOnPage="500" TotalResults="15167" TotalPages="31" PageSize="500" CurrentPage="1"><SearchResults><Document DocumentId="1348828088640186163"/><Document DocumentId="1348828088751561003"/></SearchResults></RegisterSearch>

I've tried using ElementTree as suggested by other answers, but receive a file not found error. I think I'm missing something.

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.parse(response.text)
root = tree.getroot()

response.text is a string, not a file. Use ET.fromstring(). docs.python.org/3/library/… — mzjn
– mzjn, Commented Jun 1, 2022 at 15:23

Racana · Accepted Answer · 2022-06-01 15:19:57Z

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EDIT:

If you want to use ElementTree You need to parse from STRING

root = ET.fromstring(response.text)

You can parse it with Beautiful Soup

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'xml')

Then depending on what you want to find or extract you can use find

soup.find('DocumentId').text

answered Jun 1, 2022 at 15:19

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