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How would I extract the value of this HTML element attribute with Beautiful Soup?

I am developing a small tool to scrape a webpage. I am using Beautiful Soup. I would like to fetch the class id from the page. The HTML code looks something like this: 

<span class='class_id' id='New_line'></span>

How would I obtain class_id?

Solution

  • Does the following example may help you?

    >>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as B
>>> s = B("<span class='class_id' id='New_line'></span>")
>>> s.span.attrs
[(u'class', u'class_id'), (u'id', u'New_line')]