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Assume that there is a link "http://www.someHTMLPageWithTwoForms.com" which is basically a HTML page having two forms (say Form 1 and Form 2). I have a code like this ...
import httplib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, SoupStrainer
h = httplib2.Http('.cache')
response, content = h.request('http://www.someHTMLPageWithTwoForms.com')
for field in BeautifulSoup(content, parseOnlyThese=SoupStrainer('input')):
if field.has_key('name'):
print field['name']
This returns me all the field names that belong both to the Form 1 and Form 2 of my HTML page. Is there any way I can get only the Field names that belong to a particular form (say Form 2 only)?
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If it's only 2 forms you may try this one:
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
forms = BeautifulSoup(content).findAll('form')
for field in forms[1]:
if field.has_key('name'):
print field['name']
If it's not only about the 2nd form you make it more specific (by an id or class attributs
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
forms = BeautifulSoup(content).findAll(attrs={'id' : 'yourFormId'})
for field in forms[0]:
if field.has_key('name'):
print field['name']
Doing this kind of parsing would also be quite easy using lxml (which i personally prefer over BeautifulSoup because of its Xpath support). For example, the following snippet would print all fields names (if they have one) which belong to forms named "form2":
# you can ignore this part, it's only here for the demo
from StringIO import StringIO
HTML = StringIO("""
<html>
<body>
<form name="form1" action="/foo">
<input name="uselessInput" type="text" />
</form>
<form name="form2" action="/bar">
<input name="firstInput" type="text" />
<input name="secondInput" type="text" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
""")
# here goes the useful code
import lxml.html
tree = lxml.html.parse(HTML) # you can pass parse() a file-like object or an URL
root = tree.getroot()
for form in root.xpath('//form[@name="form2"]'):
for field in form.getchildren():
if 'name' in field.keys():
print field.get('name')
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