Python: BeautifulSoup - get attribute value based on name attribute

Question

I want to print the value of an attribute based on its name, e.g.

<META NAME="City" content="Austin"> 

I want to do something like this

 soup = BeautifulSoup(f) //f is some HTML containing the above meta tag for meta_tag in soup('meta'): if meta_tag['name'] == 'City': print meta_tag['content'] 

The above code gives KeyError: 'name' , I believe this is because the name is used by BeatifulSoup, so it cannot be used as a keyword argument.

Answer 1

It is quite simple, use the following -

 >>> 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 something is unclear.

Answer 2

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

 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

The best answer is the best solution, but the FYI problem you are facing is that the Tag object in Beautiful Soup acts like a Python dictionary. If you use the ['name'] tag in a tag that does not have the 'name' attribute, you will get a KeyError.

Answer 4

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'] 

Answer 5

You can also try this solution:

To find the value that is written in the range of the table

htmlContent

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 <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

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 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