How to get html tag value in python

I'm newbie to python. Here is my code working on python 2.7.5

import urllib2
import sys       

url ="mydomain.com"
usock = urllib2.urlopen[url]
data = usock.read[]
usock.close[]

print data

Getting HTML markup like that and it works.

What I want to do is, to get value from inside tag. for ex. I need data value from this example:

Data

How to do it?

asked Sep 6, 2013 at 11:38

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You can use a HTML parser module such as BeautifulSoup:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as BS
url ="mydomain.com"
usock = urllib2.urlopen[url]
data = usock.read[]
usock.close[]
soup = BS[data]
print soup.find['font', {'class':'big'}].text

This finds a tag with a class="big". It then prints its content.

answered Sep 6, 2013 at 11:39

TerryATerryA

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Using lxml:

import urllib2
import lxml.html

url ="mydomain.com"

usock = urllib2.urlopen[url]
data = usock.read[]
usock.close[]
for font in lxml.html.fromstring[data].cssselect['font.big']:
    print font.text

>>> import lxml.html
>>> root = lxml.html.fromstring['Data']
>>> [font.text for font in root.cssselect['font.big']]
['Data']

answered Sep 6, 2013 at 11:40

falsetrufalsetru

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