retrieve links from web page using python and BeautifulSoup [closed]

Answer 1

This script does what your looking for, But also resolves the relative links to absolute links.

import urllib
import lxml.html
import urlparse

def get_dom(url):
    connection = urllib.urlopen(url)
    return lxml.html.fromstring(connection.read())

def get_links(url):
    return resolve_links((link for link in get_dom(url).xpath('//a/@href')))

def guess_root(links):
    for link in links:
        if link.startswith('http'):
            parsed_link = urlparse.urlparse(link)
            scheme = parsed_link.scheme + '://'
            netloc = parsed_link.netloc
            return scheme + netloc

def resolve_links(links):
    root = guess_root(links)
    for link in links:
        if not link.startswith('http'):
            link = urlparse.urljoin(root, link)
        yield link  

for link in get_links('http://www.google.com'):
    print link

Answer 2

Under the hood BeautifulSoup now uses lxml. Requests, lxml & list comprehensions makes a killer combo.

import requests
import lxml.html

dom = lxml.html.fromstring(requests.get('http://www.nytimes.com').content)

[x for x in dom.xpath('//a/@href') if '//' in x and 'nytimes.com' not in x]

In the list comp, the "if '//' and 'url.com' not in x" is a simple method to scrub the url list of the sites 'internal' navigation urls, etc.

Answer 3

import urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
a=urllib2.urlopen('http://dir.yahoo.com')
code=a.read()
soup=BeautifulSoup(code)
links=soup.findAll("a")
#To get href part alone
print links[0].attrs['href']

Answer 4

I found the answer by @Blairg23 working , after the following correction (covering the scenario where it failed to work correctly):

for link in BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser', parse_only=SoupStrainer('a')):
    if link.has_attr('href'):
        if file_type in link['href']:
            full_path =urlparse.urljoin(url , link['href']) #module urlparse need to be imported
            wget.download(full_path)

For Python 3:

urllib.parse.urljoin has to be used in order to obtain the full URL instead.