Question

Here is what I get back from this Python line of code

listm = soup.findAll('td',{'class':'thumb'})

when I iterate over the listm, here is an example of a item…

<a href="/property-search/property-details/1021206?StrtNum=1507"><img alt="1507 BOSTWICK LN" src="/res/slir/w75-h57-c4:3/propertyimages/20120904/BB/DSCN0738.JPG"/></a>

However, what I really want is the “1507 BOSTWICK LN” within the <img alt=

I have tried the .get_text with returns a blank, I’ve tried
lista = soup.findAll('td',{'class':'thumb'},{'alt':'img'}), and several other variations that do not get me the text.

I would like to have BeautifulSoup return the text, or would a regular expression work? My knowledge of of RE is zilch, any input would greatly be appreciated!!

Answer 1

Try this:

listm = soup.findAll('td',{'class':'thumb'})
for elem in listm:
    print elem('img')[0]['alt']

This should find the img tag within each td and print the values of the alt attribute.

EDIT:

You should not assume the existence of the img tag. Do this instead:

listm = soup.findAll('td',{'class':'thumb'})
for elem in listm:
    imgs = elem('img')
    if imgs:
        print imgs['alt']