Using beautiful soup to get html attribute value

Question

What i\'m trying to do is use beautiful soup to get the value of an html attribute.

What i have so far is:

soup = BeautifulSoup(html, \"html.parser\")
         


        

Answer 1

I assume your find() method returns None so you can't concatenate string at line #2.

>>> print('' + None)                                       
Traceback (most recent call last):                         
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>                      
TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "NoneType") to str

That's an error message I get in Python 3.7
That's not the Soup problem, you have to explicitly check return value.

Provide more information (stacktrace) if that's not the case

Answer 2

you should try the following

soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
print("data-sitekey=" + soup.find("div", attrs={"class" : "data-sitekey"}))
return soup.find("div", attrs={"class" : "data-sitekey"})