My source code looks like:
<h3>Header3 (Start here)</h3>
<ul>
<li>List items</li>
<li>Etc...</li>
</ul>
<h3>Header 3</h3>
<ul>
<li>List items</li>
<ul>
<li>Nested list items</li>
<li>Nested list items</li></ul>
<li>List items</li>
</ul>
<h2>Header 2 (end here)</h2>
I'd like all the "li" tags following the first "h3" tag and stopping at the next "h2" tag, including all nested li tags.
firstH3 = soup.find('h3')
correctly finds the place I'd like to start.
firstH3 = soup.find('h3') # Start here
uls = []
for nextSibling in firstH3.findNextSiblings():
if nextSibling.name == 'h2':
break
if nextSibling.name == 'ul':
uls.append(nextSibling)
gives me a list of ULs, each with LI contents that I need.
EXCERPT OF THE "uls" LIST:
<ul>
...
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Agent_Cody_Banks" title="Agent Cody Banks">Agent Cody Banks</a></i> (2003)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Agent_Cody_Banks_2:_Destination_London" title="Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London">Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London</a></i> (2004)</li>
<li>Air Bud series:
<ul>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Air_Bud:_World_Pup" title="Air Bud: World Pup">Air Bud: World Pup</a></i> (2000)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Air_Bud:_Seventh_Inning_Fetch" title="Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch">Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch</a></i> (2002)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Air_Bud:_Spikes_Back" title="Air Bud: Spikes Back">Air Bud: Spikes Back</a></i> (2003)</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Air_Buddies" title="Air Buddies">Air Buddies</a></i> (2006)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Akeelah_and_the_Bee" title="Akeelah and the Bee">Akeelah and the Bee</a></i> (2006)</li>
...
</ul>
But I'm unsure of where to go from here. I'm a newbie programmer trying to jump in to Python by building a script that scrapes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_in_film and extracts a list of "Movie Title (Year)".
Update:
Final Code:
lis = []
for ul in uls:
for li in ul.findAll('li'):
if li.find('ul'):
break
lis.append(li)
for li in lis:
print li.text.encode("utf-8")
The If-->break throws out the LI's that contain UL's since the nested LI's are now duplicated.
Print output is now:
- 102 Dalmatians(2000)
- 10th & Wolf(2006)
- 11:14(2006)
- 12:08 East of Bucharest(2006)
- 13 Going on 30(2004)
- 1408(2007)
- ...
Thanks
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