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Asked: 2026-05-13T21:25:04+00:00

I have written a Python program to find the carrier of a cell phone

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I have written a Python program to find the carrier of a cell phone given the number. It downloads the source of http://www.whitepages.com/carrier_lookup?carrier=other&number_0=1112223333&response=1 (where 1112223333 is the phone number to lookup) and saves this as carrier.html. In the source, the carrier is in the line after the [div class=”carrier_result”] tag. (switch in < and > for [ and ], as stackoverflow thought I was trying to format using the html and would not display it.)

My program currently searches the file and finds the line containing the div tag, but now I need a way to store the next line after that as a string. My current code is: http://pastebin.com/MSDN0vbC

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  1. Editorial Team

    What you really want to be doing is parsing the HTML properly. Use the BeautifulSoup library – it’s wonderful at doing so.

    Sample code:

    import urllib2, BeautifulSoup

opener = urllib2.build_opener()
opener.addheaders[0] = ('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.1')

response = opener.open('http://www.whitepages.com/carrier_lookup?carrier=other&number_0=1112223333&response=1').read()

bs = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(response)
print bs.findAll('div', attrs={'class': 'carrier_result'})[0].next.strip()
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