Extracting html data using attributes

[WiPi]

Hi guys,

I am trying to extract specific data from a block of html using Beautiful and attributes and can only get so far.
THe first 3 lines of the html block are:

<div class="pagearrange__layout-column pagearrange__layout-column--full">
<a class="anchor" name="explorers"></a>
<div id="explorer_shell_159760" data-tag="41" data-hash-tag="41" data-id="159760" data-aggregating="" data-owner="0" data-userid="0" data-validate="" class="trade_explorer flexBox noflex explorer explorer--demo explorer--loaded"> 

My code is:

response = requests.get(url)
content = response.content
soup = bs(content,'lxml')
ids = soup.find('div', class_ = 'pagearrange__layout-column pagearrange__layout-column--full')
print(ids)

This finds the correct block of code but I now need to extract values for the element 'data-id'.

Any ideas please?

thanks

[anbu23]

ids = soup.find('div', id = 'explorer_shell_159760')['data-id']

[WiPi]

There are a couple of problems with this. If I run it as-is the output is:

Output:
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

Also the id has to be non-unique - the number at the end is the same number as data-id which changes depending on the url.

[snippsat]

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html = '''\
<div class="pagearrange__layout-column pagearrange__layout-column--full">
<a class="anchor" name="explorers"></a>
<div id="explorer_shell_159760" data-tag="41" data-hash-tag="41" data-id="159760" data-aggregating="" data-owner="0" data-userid="0" data-validate="" class="trade_explorer flexBox noflex explorer explorer--demo explorer--loaded">'''

soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'lxml')

So now can test this out,first find the div tag,so here i just use first id to find the tag.
Then will attrs get all attributes in that tag,the can as show take out wanted one.

>>> tag = soup.find(id="explorer_shell_159760")
>>> tag
<div class="trade_explorer flexBox noflex explorer explorer--demo explorer--loaded" data-aggregating="" data-hash-tag="41" data-id="159760" data-owner="0" data-tag="41" data-userid="0" data-validate="" id="explorer_shell_159760"></div>
>>> 
>>> tag.attrs
{'class': ['trade_explorer',
           'flexBox',
           'noflex',
           'explorer',
           'explorer--demo',
           'explorer--loaded'],
 'data-aggregating': '',
 'data-hash-tag': '41',
 'data-id': '159760',
 'data-owner': '0',
 'data-tag': '41',
 'data-userid': '0',
 'data-validate': '',
 'id': 'explorer_shell_159760'}
>>> 
>>> tag.attrs.get('data-id')
'159760'

Testing out @anbu23 code so dos that work with test code.
This is more the way it should be done using attrs was more demo on what that dos.

>>> soup.find('div', id = 'explorer_shell_159760')['data-id']
'159760'

[WiPi]

guys,

Thanks for your replies I think I have the solution. As I mentioned the numbers change depending on the URL I am looking at - i.e <div id="explorer_shell_159760" might be <div id="explorer_shell_187462" in another URL so we have to search non-uniquely.
With your help and for completeness I believe this code works:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
import re


response = requests.get(url)
html = response.content
soup = bs(html,'lxml')
tag = soup.find_all(id = re.compile('explorer_shell_.*'))
for data in tag:
    d=data.get('data-id')
    print(d)

and for the particular URL I was looking at the output:

Output:
169816
170535
170727
171268
181972
181973
185996
186092

[WiPi]

Hi guys,

I'm sorry to re-ignite this thread bit I am really struggling to extract data from another set of html!!
Here's the block I am interested in:

<tbody class="explorer_tradeslist__tbody"> 
 <tr id="trade_349236564" data-ticket="349236564" class="explorer_tradeslist__row "> 
    <td class="slidetable__cell slidetable__cell--fixed" style="width: 63px; min-width: 63px;"> 
        <a id="snap_180400_trade_349236564" class="explorer__anchor explorer__anchor--trade"></a>

NZD/CAD

</td> 
<td style="width: 20px; min-width: 20px;"></td> <td style="width: 103px; min-width: 103px;">

I am trying to extract the text 'NZDCAD'.

These are all the variants I have tried so far...all unsuccessful!

tag=soup.find('a',class_ = 'explorer__anchor explorer__anchor--trade')
tag=soup.find_all('td',class_ = 'slidetable__cell slidetable__cell--fixed')
table=soup.find('table',class_='explorer_tradeslist__table alternating slidetable__table')
table=soup.find('tbody',class_='explorer_tradeslist__tbody')
tag=soup.find(class_='explorer_tradeslist__tbody',attrs={'id':'snap_180400_trade_349236564'})
tag=soup.find(class_='slidetable__cell slidetable__cell--fixed',attrs={'id':'snap_180400_trade_349236564'})
tag=soup.find_all('a',attrs={'id':'snap_180400_trade_349236564'})

Are you able to put me out of my misery please?

[anbu23]

import bs4
html_string='''<tbody class="explorer_tradeslist__tbody"> 
 <tr id="trade_349236564" data-ticket="349236564" class="explorer_tradeslist__row "> 
    <td class="slidetable__cell slidetable__cell--fixed" style="width: 63px; min-width: 63px;"> 
        <a id="snap_180400_trade_349236564" class="explorer__anchor explorer__anchor--trade"></a>
 
NZD/CAD
 
</td> 
<td style="width: 20px; min-width: 20px;"></td> <td style="width: 103px; min-width: 103px;">
'''
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html_string)
soup.find("td",class_="slidetable__cell slidetable__cell--fixed").text

[WiPi]

I tried this and the output was 'Develop' which is weird as this is in the full html but under different tag names:

<li class="left noborder nolink explorer__headerli explorer__headerli--title"> 
 <strong class="explorer__titlesegment explorer__titlesegment--title">
  <span class="icon icon--explorer-demo"></span>
   Develop
 </strong> 
 <span class="explorer__titlesegment explorer__titlesegment--pipe">|</span> 

[anbu23]

Its wierd. Can you post code you tried?

[WiPi]

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
import requests
html = 'url'
html = response.content
soup = bs(html,'lxml')
tag=soup.find("td",class_="slidetable__cell slidetable__cell--fixed").text

Actually I don't know what I did first time around but this returns 'None' now so I guess it didn't find anything.