OK, got the very basic case to work when using Beautiful Soup 3.0.7a and
scraping the Weather Underground Lite page. That gives me the current
temperature, etc. Good.
But now I would like the average temperature from, say, yesterday. I am again
having trouble finding elements in the soup. This is the code:
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import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
url =
"http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KPAJAMES1&month=7&day=16&year=2009";
page = urllib2.urlopen(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
table = soup.find("td",id="dataTable tm10")
print table
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When I look at the page source for that page, there is this section, which
contains the "dataTable tm10" table I want to zoom in on:
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<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="dataTable tm10">
<thead>
<tr>
<td style="width: 25%;"> </td>
<td>Current:</td>
<td>High:</td>
<td>Low:</td>
<td>Average:</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Temperature:</td>
<td>
<span class="nobr"><span class="b">73.6</span> °F</span>
</td>
<td>
<span class="nobr"><span class="b">83.3</span> °F</span>
</td>
<td>
<span class="nobr"><span class="b">64.2</span> °F</span>
</td>
<td>
<span class="nobr"><span class="b">74.1</span> °F</span>
</td>
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And yet when I run the above code, what it prints is:
>> None
In other words, it is not finding that table. Why?
Help appreciated again.
Che
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