How to get CSS Background Colour with Python?

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Basically exactly as the question says, I'm trying to get the background colour out from a website.

At the moment I'm using BeautifulSoup to get the HTML, but it's proving a difficult way of the getting the CSS. Any help would be great!

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-28 23:41:03Z

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This is not something you can reliably solve with BeautifulSoup. You need a real browser.

The simplest option would be to use selenium browser automation tool:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('url')

element = driver.find_element_by_id('myid')
print(element.value_of_css_property('background-color'))

value_of_css_property() documentation.

answered Mar 28, 2015 at 23:41

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Lucas Farias Over a year ago

Is it still the case as of today? can't BeautifulSoup do that yet?

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