I need to extract the name of the artists from an HTML page. Here's a snippet of the page:
</td>
<td class="playbuttonCell">
<a class="playbutton preview-track" href="/music/example" data-analytics-redirect="false" >
<img class="transparent_png play_icon" width="13" height="13" alt="Play" src="http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/preview/play_indicator.png" style="" />
</a>
</td>
<td class="subjectCell" title="example, played 3 times">
<div>
<a href="/music/example-artist" >Example artist name</a>
I've tried this but isn't doing the job.
import urllib
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html = urllib.urlopen('http://www.last.fm/user/Jehl/charts?rangetype=overall&subtype=artists').read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
print soup('a')
for link in soup('a'):
print html
Where am I screwing up?
for link in soup.select('td.subjectCell a'):
print link.text
It selects (just like CSS) the a
elements inside td
elements that have the subjectCell class.