Python XML parsing from website

Question

I am trying to Parse from a website. I am stuck. I will provide the XML below. It is coming from a webiste. I have two questions. What is the best way to read xml from a website

Answer 1

If you wanted to stick with xml.dom.minidom, try this...

from xml.dom import minidom
import urllib

url_str = 'http://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/omo/dmm/fftoXML.cfm?type=daily'
xml_str = urllib.urlopen(url_str).read()
xmldoc = minidom.parseString(xml_str)

obs_values = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('base:OBS_VALUE')
# prints the first base:OBS_VALUE it finds
print obs_values[0].firstChild.nodeValue

# prints the second base:OBS_VALUE it finds
print obs_values[1].firstChild.nodeValue

# prints all base:OBS_VALUE in the XML document
for obs_val in obs_values:
    print obs_val.firstChild.nodeValue

However, if you want to use lxml, use underrun's solution. Also, your original code had some errors. You were actually attempting to parse the document variable, which was the web address. You needed to parse the xml returned from the website, which in your example is the get_web variable.