Re: Help with BeautifulSoup
- From: Alexnb <alexnbryan@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:47:01 -0700 (PDT)
Michiel Overtoom wrote:
Alex wrote...
Okay, heres the general idea of the html I have to work with:
<div>
noun
<table class='luna'>
<table class='luna'>
<table class='luna'>
<table class='luna'>
verb
<table class='luna'>
<table class='luna'>
<table class='luna'>
</div>
Okay, I left off some stuff.
I wish you didn't, or at least provided an URL where I can get the page
which you are trying to parse. Now I don't have a valid testcase to
tinker
with. And maybe you can also show your code which you already came up
with.
I can easily get the tables but it is the span's than I am having troublewith.
I can't see any SPAN tags in the example you provided.
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Oh, well sorry, I wrote the span tags, but they didn't show up. But it was
around the noun. Here is the code I have to get the definitions alone:
import urllib
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
class defWord:
def __init__(self, word):
self.word = word
def get_defs(term):
soup =
BeautifulSoup(urllib.urlopen('http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s' %
term))
for tabs in soup.findAll('table', {'class': 'luna-Ent'}):
yield tabs.findAll('td')[-1].contents[0].string
self.mainList = list(get_defs(self.word))
Theres a bit more to it, but it doesn't matter here, and so if you look I am
using dictionary.com as the website. If you look at the html, the "" tags
are where the type of the word is and that is what I need, in order. Or if I
can figure out how many <table> tags are inbetween each "" tag, that too
would work.
This is the type the code I am talking about if it helps:
–noun
<table class="luna-Ent">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="dn" valign="top">1.</td>
<td valign="top">the curd of milk separated from the whey and prepared in
many ways as a food. </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table class="luna-Ent">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="dn" valign="top">2.</td>
<td valign="top">a definite mass of this substance, often in the shape of a
wheel or cylinder. </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table class="luna-Ent">
</table>
<table class="luna-Ent">
</table>
<table class="luna-Ent">
</table>
<table class="luna-Ent">
</table>
<table class="luna-Ent">
</table>
<table class="luna-Ent">
</table>
–verb (used without object)
<table class="luna-Ent">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="dn" valign="top">9.</td>
<td valign="top">
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
–verb (used with object)
<table class="luna-Ent">
If you need anything else, feel free to ask!
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