Question

I need to parse a url to get a list of urls that link to a detail page. Then from that page I need to get all the details from that page. I need to do it this way because the detail page url is not regularly incremented and changes, but the event list page stays the same.

Basically:

example.com/events/
    <a href="http://example.com/events/1">Event 1</a>
    <a href="http://example.com/events/2">Event 2</a>

example.com/events/1
    ...some detail stuff I need

example.com/events/2
    ...some detail stuff I need

Answer 1

import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

page = urllib2.urlopen('http://yahoo.com').read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
soup.prettify()
for anchor in soup.findAll('a', href=True):
    print anchor['href']

It will give you the list of urls. Now You can iterate over those urls and parse the data.

• inner_div = soup.findAll("div", {"id": "y-shade"})
  This is an example. You can go through the BeautifulSoup tutorials.