Get data inside a button tag using BeautifulSoup
Sometimes while working with BeautifulSoup, are you stuck at the point where you have to get data inside a button tag? Don’t worry. Just read the article and get to know how you can do the same.
For instance, consider this simple page source having a button tag.
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
< html lang = "en" >
< head >
< meta charset = "UTF-8" >
< title >Apple</ title >
</ head >
< body >
< button id = "enjoy" onclick = "gfg.html" >
Click Me!
</ button >
</ body >
</ html >
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Once you have created the button in the HTML code, you can get the text inside a button tag using:
btn_text=btn.text
print(btn_text)
Also, you can find the onclick link of the button inside a button tag using:
btn_onclick=btn['onclick']
print(btn_onclick)
Steps to get the text inside the Button
Step 1: First, import the libraries Beautiful Soup and os.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
import os
Step 2: Now, remove the last segment of the path by entering the name of the Python file in which you are currently working.
base=os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(‘#Name of Python file in which you are currently working))
Step 3: Then, open the HTML file from which you want to read the value.
html=open(os.path.join(base, ‘#Name of HTML file from which you wish to read value’))
Step 4: Moreover, parse the HTML file in Beautiful Soup
soup=bs(html, 'html.parser')
Step 5: Next, find the button for which you want to obtain the data.
btn=soup.find("button", {"id":"#Id name of the button"})
Step 6: Now, for obtaining the text stored inside the button tag in the HTML, use:
btn_text=btn.text
Step 7: Further, for finding the onclick link inside the button tag, you can write the code as follows:
btn_onclick=btn['onclick']
Step 8: Finally, printing the text and onclick link of the button tag obtained in steps 6 and 7.
print(btn_text)
print(btn_onclick)
Below is the full implementation:
Python
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
import os
base = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
html = open (os.path.join(base, 'run.html' ))
soup = bs(html, 'html.parser' )
btn = soup.find( "button" , { "id" : "enjoy" })
btn_text = btn.text
btn_onclick = btn[ 'onclick' ]
print (btn_text)
print (btn_onclick)
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Output:
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26 Mar, 2021
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