Getting html tag value in python

Question

I'm newbie to python. Here is my code working on python 2.7.5

import urllib2
import sys       

url ="mydomain.com"
usock = urllib2.urlopen(url)
data = usock.read()
usock.close()

print data

Getting HTML markup like that and it works.

What I want to do is, to get value from inside <font class="big"></font> tag. for ex. I need data value from this example:

<font class="big">Data</font>

How to do it?

Answer 1

You can use a HTML parser module such as BeautifulSoup:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as BS
url ="mydomain.com"
usock = urllib2.urlopen(url)
data = usock.read()
usock.close()
soup = BS(data)
print soup.find('font', {'class':'big'}).text

This finds a tag <font> with a class="big". It then prints its content.