Python Beautifulsoup Getting Attribute Value

Question

I'm having difficulty getting the proper syntax to extract the value of an attribute in Beautifulsoup with HTML 5.0.

So I've isolated the occurrence of a tag in my soup using the proper syntax where there is an HTML 5 issue:

tags = soup.find_all(attrs={"data-topic":"recUpgrade"})

Taking just tags[1]:

date = tags[1].find(attrs={"data-datenews":True})

and date here is:

<span class="invisible" data-datenews="2018-05-25 06:02:19" data-idnews="2736625" id="horaCompleta"></span>

But now I want to extract the date time "2018-05-25 06:02:19". Can't get the syntax.

Insight/help please.

You can get attribute value from element, check out this

Max Jevachkin
– Max Jevachkin

2018-05-25 16:25:56 +00:00
Commented May 25, 2018 at 16:25 — Max Jevachkin
– Max Jevachkin, Commented May 25, 2018 at 16:25

Rakesh · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-25 16:28:01Z

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You can access the attrs using key-value pair

Ex:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
s = """<span class="invisible" data-datenews="2018-05-25 06:02:19" data-idnews="2736625" id="horaCompleta"></span>"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(s, "html.parser")
print(soup.span["data-datenews"])

Output:

2018-05-25 06:02:19

answered May 25, 2018 at 16:28

Rakesh

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Windstorm1981 Over a year ago

Interesting. So parse again? (I used the parser, not shown, to get `soup')

Windstorm1981 Over a year ago

so I try this syntax: print(date.span["data-datenews"]) and I get TypeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute '__getitem__'. print(date["data-datenews"]) works. Why?

Rakesh Over a year ago

you need to find the span tag first

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