Python Beautifulsoup Getting Attribute Value

Question

I'm having difficulty getting the proper syntax to extract the value of an attribute in Beautifulsoup with HTML 5.0.

So I've isolated the occurrence of a tag in my soup using the proper syntax where there is an HTML 5 issue:

tags = soup.find_all(attrs={"data-topic":"recUpgrade"})

Taking just tags[1]:

date = tags[1].find(attrs={"data-datenews":True})

and date here is:

<span class="invisible" data-datenews="2018-05-25 06:02:19" data-idnews="2736625" id="horaCompleta"></span>

But now I want to extract the date time "2018-05-25 06:02:19". Can't get the syntax.

Insight/help please.

Answer 1

You can access the attrs using key-value pair

Ex:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
s = """<span class="invisible" data-datenews="2018-05-25 06:02:19" data-idnews="2736625" id="horaCompleta"></span>"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(s, "html.parser")
print(soup.span["data-datenews"])

Output:

2018-05-25 06:02:19