[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > i need to scrape a url out of an href. it seems that people recommend > that i use beautiful soup but had some problems.
What problem are you having with BeautifulSoup? It's working fine for here. > does anyone have sample code for scraping the actual url out of an href > like this one > > <a href="http://www.cnn.com"; target="_blank"> The following fragment works fine for me: linktext = soup.fetchText('Next') if not linktext: return pages else: url = linktext[0].findParent('a')['href'] So you probably want something like: for anchor in soup.fetch('a', {'target': '_blank'}): print anchor['href'] <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
