Display text from img alt tag with beautifulsoup

Question

So far my code is:

year = range(1958,2013)
randomYear = random.choice(year)
randomYear = str(randomYear)
page = range(1,5)
randomPage = random.choice(page)
randomPage = str(randomPage)
print(randomPage, randomYear)
url = 'http://www.billboard.com/artists/top-100/'+randomYear+'?page='+randomPage
url1 = urlopen(url)
htmlSource = url1.read()
url1.close()
soup = BeautifulSoup(htmlSource)
listm = soup.findAll('article', {'class': 'masonry-brick','style' : 'position;  absolute; top; 0px; left: 0px;'})
for listm in soup.findAll('div',{'class': 'thumbnail'}):
    for listm in soup.find('img alt')(''):
        print(listm)

What I want to do is get the img alt='' text. I think I have it correct, somewhat but it displays nothing.

Answer 1

To get <img> elements that have alt attribute, you could use soup('img', alt=True):

print("\n".join([img['alt'] for img in div.find_all('img', alt=True)]))

Do not use the same name for different purposes, it hurts readability of the code:

soup = BeautifulSoup(htmlSource)
articles = soup('article', 'masonry-brick',
                style='position;  absolute; top; 0px; left: 0px;')
for div in soup.find_all('div', 'thumbnail'):
    for img in div.find_all('img', alt=True):
        print(img['alt'])

Note: articles is unused.

I only need one img tag. How can I do this?

You could use .find() method, to get one <img> element per <div>:

for div in soup.find_all('div', 'thumbnail'):
    img = div.find('img', alt=True)
    print(img['alt'])