Python Parse single line of XML

Question

What im trying to do is make a scraper and there is a login page, im filling two out of three values needed to get on the next page

the scraper needs a username,password and then the token,

im autofilling the username and password and ive narrowed the html response down to the one input tag in python.

The tags code is:

<input type="hidden" name="licence[_csrf_token]" value="SOME RANDOM CHECKSUM" id="licence__csrf_token" />

is there any way of getting this and by the way the checksum is dynamic as in it changes length.

What do you mean by "getting this"? Also, what tools have you used to extract the input tag from the HTML? — Robᵩ, May 26 '15 at 14:53

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 26 '15 at 14:59

BeautifulSoup is one good way to parse arbitrary HTML:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html_doc = '''<input type="hidden" 
                     name="licence[_csrf_token]" 
                     value="SOME RANDOM CHECKSUM"
                     id="licence__csrf_token" />'''

soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc)
print soup.input['value']

Python Parse single line of XML

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