scraping dynamic updates of temperature sensor data from a website

Question

I wrote following python code:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib2

url= \'http://www.example.com\'
page = urllib2.urlopen(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup         


        

Answer 1

This should do it:

freq.text.strip()

As in

>>> html = '
tempsensor
'
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
>>> soup.text.strip()
u'tempsensor'