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In a given .html page, I have a script tag like so:
<script>jQuery(window).load(function () {
setTimeout(function(){
jQuery("input[name=Email]").val("[email protected]");
}, 1000);
});</script>
How can I use Beautiful Soup to extract the email address?
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find is used for returning the result when the searched element is found on the page. find_all is used for returning all the matches after scanning the entire document.
To add a bit more to the @Bob's answer and assuming you need to also locate the script tag in the HTML which may have other script tags.
The idea is to define a regular expression that would be used for both locating the element with BeautifulSoup and extracting the email value:
import re
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
data = """
<body>
<script>jQuery(window).load(function () {
setTimeout(function(){
jQuery("input[name=Email]").val("[email protected]");
}, 1000);
});</script>
</body>
"""
pattern = re.compile(r'\.val\("([^@]+@[^@]+\.[^@]+)"\);', re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL)
soup = BeautifulSoup(data, "html.parser")
script = soup.find("script", text=pattern)
if script:
match = pattern.search(script.text)
if match:
email = match.group(1)
print(email)
Prints: [email protected].
Here we are using a simple regular expression for the email address, but we can go further and be more strict about it but I doubt that would be practically necessary for this problem.
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