Extracting an attribute value with beautifulsoup

Question

I am trying to extract the content of a single \"value\" attribute in a specific \"input\" tag on a webpage. I use the following code:

import urllib
f = urll         


        

Answer 1

If you want to retrieve multiple values of attributes from the source above, you can use findAll and a list comprehension to get everything you need:

import urllib
f = urllib.urlopen("http://58.68.130.147")
s = f.read()
f.close()

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup
soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(s)

inputTags = soup.findAll(attrs={"name" : "stainfo"})
### You may be able to do findAll("input", attrs={"name" : "stainfo"})

output = [x["stainfo"] for x in inputTags]

print output
### This will print a list of the values.