I am looking to scrape some data from a website. To preface, I am a novice. I am looking to specifically filter all the XML data returned based upon the Postal Code (postal code is under 'item_teaser').
<item lat="43.6437075296758" long="-80.083111524582" item_name="Acton Golf Club" item_url="http://www.ontariogolf.com/courses/acton/acton-gc/" item_teaser="4955 Dublin Line Acton, Ontario L7J 2M2"/>
Above is an example of what I am trying to pull, but I want to filter everything through specific Postal Areas (the first 3 letters ex. L7J)
Can find_all() go through item_teaser find the associated strings such as "L7J, L2S, L2O, etc." and return those matching Postal Areas including the entire item?
The below code is wrong as I can't pull anything, but it's currently what I have.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = "http://www.ontariogolf.com/app/map/cfeed.php?e=-63&w=-106&n=55&s=36"
xml = requests.get(url)
# I was just seeing if I could grab everything from the website which worked when I printed.
soup = BeautifulSoup(xml.content, 'lxml')
# I am trying to show all item teasers just to try it out, but I can't seem to figure it out
tag = soup.find_all(id="item_teaser")
print(tag)
You can check if multiple strings [matches list] exist in another string [attribute with name = "item_teaser"]
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
url = "http://www.ontariogolf.com/app/map/cfeed.php?e=-63&w=-106&n=55&s=36"
xml = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(xml.content, 'lxml')
input_tag = soup.find_all('item')
# put the list of associated strings here
matches = ["L7J", "L1S", "L2A"]
# print the result
for tag in input_tag:
text= tag["item_teaser"]
if any(x in text for x in matches):
print(text)