Question

I have some <div>s and other stuff in a site and the specific line in the middle of inumerous divs

<input name="extWarrantyProds" type="hidden" value="23814298 ^ true"/>

How can I get the “value” part from this code, which it is in the middle of a site with other stuff ?

I’m trying with urllib but I don’t even know where to start =/

Answer 1

The easiest way I can think of:

import urllib

urlStr = "http://www..."

fileObj = urllib.urlopen(urlStr)

for line in fileObj:
    if ('<input name="extWarrantyProds"' in line):
        startIndex = line.find('value="') + 7
        endIndex = line.find('"',startIndex)
        print line[startIndex:endIndex]