Urllib2 get specific element

Question

I have a web-page and I want to get the <div class="password"> element using urllbi2 in Python without using Beautiful Soup.

My code so far:

import urllib.request as urllib2
link = "http://www.chiquitooenterprise.com/password"
response = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.chiquitooenterprise.com/')
contents = response.read('password')

It gives an error.

Answer 1

You need to decode() the response with utf-8 as it states in the Network tab:

Hence:

import urllib.request as urllib2
link = "http://www.chiquitooenterprise.com/password"
response = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.chiquitooenterprise.com/')
output = response.read().decode('utf-8')
print(output)

OUTPUT:

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