I have a webpage's source. It's just a ton of random numbers and letters and function names, saved as a string in python3. I want to find the text that says \"followerCount\": in the source code of this string, but I also want to find a little bit of the text that follows it (n characters). This would hopefully have the piece of text I'm looking for. Can I search for a specific part of a string and the n characters that follow it in python3?
Use .find() to get the position:
html = "... lots of html source ..."
position = html.find('"followerCount":')
Then use string slicing to extract that part of the string:
n = 50 # or however many characters you want
print(html[position:position+n])