Extracting an attribute value with beautifulsoup

Question

I am trying to extract the content of a single \"value\" attribute in a specific \"input\" tag on a webpage. I use the following code:

import urllib
f = urll         


        

Answer 1

You could try to use the new powerful package called requests_html:

from requests_html import HTMLSession
session = HTMLSession()

r = session.get("https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54448223")
date = r.html.find('time', first = True) # finding a "tag" called "time"
print(date)  # you will have: 
# To get the text inside the "datetime" attribute use:
print(date.attrs['datetime']) # you will get '2020-10-07T11:41:22.000Z'