Find value of input field in html doc using python

Question

I am trying to get input values from an HTML doc and want to parse out the values of hidden input fields. For example how can I parse out only the value from the snippet bel

Answer 1

You could use BeautifulSoup:

>>> htmlstr = """    
...     """
>>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(htmlstr)
>>> [(n['name'], n['value']) for n in soup.findAll('input')]
[(u'post_form_id', u'd619a1eb3becdc05a3ebea530396782f'), (u'fb_dtsg', u'AQCYsohu')]