How to retrieve text from response made from Requests python

Question

I am trying to search inside the response of a request (I used Requests and Python). I get the response and check the type of it, which is UNICODE.

I want to retrieve a specific link which is located between two other strings. I have tried different ways found online such as the:

• result = re.**search**('Currently: <a ', s)
• url_file = response.**find**('Currently: <a ', beg=0, end=len(response))

Also tried to transform the UNICODE string to a normal string:

• s = unicodedata.normalize(response, title).encode('ascii','ignore')

I get an error.

EDITED

For example:

This works:

    s = 'asdf=5;iwantthis123jasd'
    result = re.search('asdf=5;(.*)123jasd', s)
    print result.group(1)

This doesn't work (returns error):

    s = 'Currently: <a '
    result = re.search(r.text, s)
    print result.group(1)

Answer 1

You can access the raw text from the response object with the text attribute.

res = requests.get("http://google.com")
re.search('pattern', res.text)

Then, just use a regular expression to "search" or "match" the entire response.