On 03/06/2014 02:22 PM, teddyb...@gmail.com wrote:
I am using beautifulsoup to get the title and date of the website.
title is working fine but I am not able to pull the date. Here is the code in
the url:
<span class="date">October 22, 2011</span>
In Python, I am using the following code:
date1 = soup.span.text
data=soup.find_all(date="value")
Results in:
[]
March 5, 2014
What is the proper way to get this info?
Thanks.
I believe it's the 'attrs' argument.
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/
# Workaround the 'class' problem:
data = soup.find_all(attrs={'class': 'date'})
I haven't tested it, but it's worth looking into.
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