Extract image links from the webpage using Python

Question

So I wanted to get all of the pictures on this page(of the nba teams). http://www.cbssports.com/nba/draft/mock-draft

However, my code gives a bit more than that. It

Answer 1

I know this can be "traumatic", but for those automatically generated pages, where you just want to grab the damn images away and never come back, a quick-n-dirty regular expression that takes the desired pattern tends to be my choice (no Beautiful Soup dependency is a great advantage):

import urllib, re

source = urllib.urlopen('http://www.cbssports.com/nba/draft/mock-draft').read()

## every image name is an abbreviation composed by capital letters, so...
for link in re.findall('http://sports.cbsimg.net/images/nba/logos/30x30/[A-Z]*.png', source):
    print link


    ## the code above just prints the link;
    ## if you want to actually download, set the flag below to True

    actually_download = False
    if actually_download:
        filename = link.split('/')[-1]
        urllib.urlretrieve(link, filename)

Hope this helps!