My tools of choice are mechanize for cheating the site to believe I use IE, and BeautifulSoup for parsing page to get the flights data table. Quite honestly, I got lost in the BeautifulSoup documentation, and can't understand how to get the table (whose title I know) from the entire document, and how to get a list of rows from that table. Any ...
The easy method that will work even in a corrupted setup environment is: To download ez_setup.py and run it using the command line, python ez_setup.py Output Extracting in c:\uu\uu\appdata\local\temp\tmpjxvil3 Now working in c:\u\u\appdata\local\temp\tmpjxvil3\setuptools-5.6 Installing Setuptools Run pip install beautifulsoup4 Output Downloading/unpacking beautifulsoup4 Running setup.py ...
I'm having trouble parsing html elements with "class" attribute using Beautifulsoup. You can easily find by one class, but if you want to find by the intersection of two classes, it's a little more difficult, From the documentation (emphasis added): If you want to search for tags that match two or more CSS classes, you should use a CSS selector:
You can use Beautiful Soup to extract the src attribute of an HTML img tag. In my example, the htmlText contains the img tag itself, but this can be used for a URL too, along with urllib2. The solution provided by the Abu Shoeb's answer is not working any more with Python 3. This is the correct implementation: For URLs
Can I use html2text in junction with BeautifulSoup. For example I parse the chunk of html I'm interested at and then feed it to html2text using pretify ()?
