Python: BeautifulSoup - get an attribute value based on the name attribute

Question

I want to print an attribute value based on its name, take for example

I want to do something

Answer 1

If tdd='<td class="abc"> 75</td>'
In Beautifulsoup 

if(tdd.has_attr('class')):
   print(tdd.attrs['class'][0])


Result:  abc

Answer 2

theharshest answered the question but here is another way to do the same thing. Also, In your example you have NAME in caps and in your code you have name in lowercase.

s = '<div class="question" id="get attrs" name="python" x="something">Hello World</div>'
soup = BeautifulSoup(s)

attributes_dictionary = soup.find('div').attrs
print attributes_dictionary
# prints: {'id': 'get attrs', 'x': 'something', 'class': ['question'], 'name': 'python'}

print attributes_dictionary['class'][0]
# prints: question

print soup.find('div').get_text()
# prints: Hello World

Answer 3

One can also try this solution :

To find the value, which is written in span of table

htmlContent

---

<table>
    <tr>
        <th>
            ID
        </th>
        <th>
            Name
        </th>
    </tr>


    <tr>
        <td>
            <span name="spanId" class="spanclass">ID123</span>
        </td>

        <td>
            <span>Bonny</span>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

Python code

---

soup = BeautifulSoup(htmlContent, "lxml")
soup.prettify()

tables = soup.find_all("table")

for table in tables:
   storeValueRows = table.find_all("tr")
   thValue = storeValueRows[0].find_all("th")[0].string

   if (thValue == "ID"): # with this condition I am verifying that this html is correct, that I wanted.
      value = storeValueRows[1].find_all("span")[0].string
      value = value.strip()

      # storeValueRows[1] will represent <tr> tag of table located at first index and find_all("span")[0] will give me <span> tag and '.string' will give me value

      # value.strip() - will remove space from start and end of the string.

     # find using attribute :

     value = storeValueRows[1].find("span", {"name":"spanId"})['class']
     print value
     # this will print spanclass

Answer 4

6 years late to the party but I've been searching for how to extract an html element's tag attribute value, so for:

<span property="addressLocality">Ayr</span>

I want "addressLocality". I kept being directed back here, but the answers didn't really solve my problem.

How I managed to do it eventually:

>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs

>>> soup = bs('<span property="addressLocality">Ayr</span>', 'html.parser')
>>> my_attributes = soup.find().attrs
>>> my_attributes
{u'property': u'addressLocality'}

As it's a dict, you can then also use keys and 'values'

>>> my_attributes.keys()
[u'property']
>>> my_attributes.values()
[u'addressLocality']

Hopefully it helps someone else!

Answer 5

It's pretty simple, use the following -

>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup('<META NAME="City" content="Austin">')
>>> soup.find("meta", {"name":"City"})
<meta name="City" content="Austin" />
>>> soup.find("meta", {"name":"City"})['content']
u'Austin'

Leave a comment if anything is not clear.

Answer 6

The following works:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup('<META NAME="City" content="Austin">', 'html.parser')

metas = soup.find_all("meta")

for meta in metas:
    print meta.attrs['content'], meta.attrs['name']