beautifulsoup - Python web-scraping countdown timer values

Question

I am trying to scrape data from the following <countdown> element, specifically I am trying to get the values from formatted_date. I am not getting any luck and it is just printing None.

<countdown current_time="1611585537797" date="1611603000" listing="f446d440-9d45-4e48-bf93-69c5e117fac2" formatted_date="25th January 2021 19:30:00"></countdown>

Any ideas?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65888255/python-web-scraping-countdown-timer-values

Answer 1

try this: We can access a tag’s attributes by treating it like a dictionary.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html = """<countdown current_time="1611585537797" date="1611603000" listing="f446d440-9d45-4e48-bf93-69c5e117fac2" formatted_date="25th January 2021 19:30:00"></countdown>"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'lxml')

tag = soup.countdown
print(tag.attrs['formatted_date'])