How to use Python regular expression to get Image src?

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How to use regular expression to get src of image from the following html string using Python

<td width="80" align="center" valign="top"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFqz8ZCIf6NjgPPiTd2LIrByKYLWA&url=http://www.news.com.au/business/spain-victory-faces-market-test/story-fn7mjon9-1226390697278"><img src="//nt3.ggpht.com/news/tbn/380jt5xHH6l_FM/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" /> NEWS.com.au</a></td>

I tried to use

matches = re.search('@src="([^"]+)"',text)
print(matches[0])

But got nothing

What is the '@' character supposed to match? There is no such character in your input string. — Martijn Pieters
– Martijn Pieters, Commented Jun 10, 2012 at 20:26
possible duplicate of Python regular expression for HTML parsing (BeautifulSoup), Python Reg Ex. problem — outis
– outis, Commented Jun 12, 2012 at 5:33

clopez · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-06 03:06:05Z

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Instead of regex, you could consider using BeautifulSoup:

>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(junk)
>>> soup.findAll('img')
[<img src="//nt3.ggpht.com/news/tbn/380jt5xHH6l_FM/6.jpg" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80" />]
>>> soup.findAll('img')[0]['src']
u'//nt3.ggpht.com/news/tbn/380jt5xHH6l_FM/6.jpg'

edited Jun 6, 2017 at 3:06

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answered Jun 10, 2012 at 20:33

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Jeff Tratner Over a year ago

wouldn't Beautiful Soup add a lot of overhead to the solution? img tags are relatively easy to parse (and since they don't enclose other text, usually are formatted correctly)

xpda · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-21 17:11:04Z

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Just lose the @ in the regex and it will work

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Joel Cornett · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-10 20:30:07Z

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You could simplify your re a little:

match = re.search(r'src="(.*?)"', text)

answered Jun 10, 2012 at 20:30

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Bryan Dimas Over a year ago

It gets javascript files too.

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