python - Extracting a specific list item using Beautiful Soup -
i working on web scraper project using python , beautiful soup. please have @ html code section having trouble with. since <li> items in <ul> have same class names <div> , <span>, how can extract phone number i.e value of second <span> in third <li> item?
i can extract <ul> tag , contents using ad_soup.find("ul",{"class":"menu"}), not know how proceed after that. highly appreciated.
<ul class="menu"> <li> <div class="item"> <span class="name">name:</span> <span class="value">....</span> </div> </li> <li> <div class="item"> <span class="name">location:</span> <span class="value">....</span> </div> </li> <li> <div class="item"> <span class="name">phone:</span> <span class="value">....</span> </div> </li> </ul>
if know phone third element, following should help:
(ad_soup.find("ul",{"class":"menu"}). find_all("li")[2].find("span", {"class": "value"})) if don't know phone third element, can loop on li , select needed one:
[li.find("span", {"class": "value"}) li in ad_soup.find("ul",{"class": "menu"}).find_all("li") if li.find("span", {"class": "name"}).string == "phone:"]
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