Extracting an attribute value with beautifulsoup
- by Barnabe
I am trying to extract the content of a single "value" attribute in a specific "input" tag on a webpage. I use the following code:
import urllib
f = urllib.urlopen("http://58.68.130.147")
s = f.read()
f.close()
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup
soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(s)
inputTag = soup.findAll(attrs={"name" : "stainfo"})
output = inputTag['value']
print str(output)
I get a TypeError: list indices must be integers, not str
even though from the Beautifulsoup documentation i understand that strings should not be a problem here... but i a no specialist and i may have misunderstood.
Any suggestion is greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
