Today I was looking into a small file uploader and I got the following response from the API page.
upload_success<br>http://www.filepup.net/files/R6wVq1405781467.html<br>http://www.filepup.net/delete/Jp3q5w1405781467/R6wVq1405781467.html
I need to get the part between the two <br> tags. I am using Beautifulsoup and this code but it returns None.
fpbs = BeautifulSoup(filepup.text)
finallink = fpbs.find('br', 'br')
print(finallink)
You cannot search for text between two tags, no. You can locate the first <br> tag, then take its next sibling, however:
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup('upload_success<br>http://www.filepup.net/files/R6wVq1405781467.html<br>http://www.filepup.net/delete/Jp3q5w1405781467/R6wVq1405781467.html')
>>> soup.find('br')
<br/>
>>> soup.find('br').next_sibling
u'http://www.filepup.net/files/R6wVq1405781467.html'
You could use a CSS selector search to search for an adjacent sibling, then grab the preceding sibling; to CSS only the tags are siblings, but to BeautifulSoup the text nodes count too.
The adjacent select is + between two CSS selectors, and selects the second of the two; br + br would select any br tag that comes second.
Together with a parent node (say a specific id or class) that can be a very powerful combination:
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup('''\
... <div id="div1">
... some text
... <br/>
... some target text
... <br/>
... foo bar
... </div>
... <div id="div2">
... some more text
... <br/>
... select me, ooh, pick me!
... <br/>
... fooed the bar!
... </div>
... ''')
>>> soup.select('#div2 br + br')[0]
<br/>
>>> soup.select('#div2 br + br')[0].previous_sibling
u'\n select me, ooh, pick me!\n '
This picked a very specific text node between two <br> tags, in a specific <div> tag.
