Parsing Android Manifest File to look for the uses-permission tag using python

Question

I am parsing the uses-permission tag in an xml file(androidmanifest.xml) mentioned in an android application

I have tried implementing a for loop to make it iterative but i have failed and so am here

Python:

from xml.dom.minidom import parseString
file = open('/root/Desktop/AndroidManifest.xml','r')
data = file.read()
file.close()
dom = parseString(data)
  xmlTag = dom.getElementsByTagName('uses-permission')[0].toxml()

  print xmlTag

Output:

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET">
</uses-permission>

for loop mistake:

for uses-permission in xmlTag:
    #print child.tag, child.attrib
    print xmlTag.tag
xmlTag = dom.getElementsByTagName('uses-permission')[1].toxml()
xmlTag= dom._get_childNodes
#print xmlTag

Answer 1

To find all the permission tags, try iterating over the nodes that dom.getElementsByTagName('uses-permission') returns instead of accessing only the node at index 0:

from xml.dom.minidom import parseString

data = ''
with open('/root/Desktop/AndroidManifest.xml','r') as f:
    data = f.read()
dom = parseString(data)
nodes = dom.getElementsByTagName('uses-permission')
# Iterate over all the uses-permission nodes
for node in nodes:
    print node.toxml()

or if you want just the permission and not the xml, you can replace node.toxml() with node.getAttribute('android:name').