从span标签中获取日期

时间:2015-01-25 03:27:33

标签: python web-scraping beautifulsoup

使用Beautiful Soup,我想从包含url列表的文本文件中提取日期。其中日期在span标签中使用div class = update定义。当我尝试下面的代码时,我得到的结果是<span id="time"></span>,但不是确切的时间。请帮忙。例如,sabah_url.txt中链接的类型是&#34; http://www.dailysabah.com/world/2012/02/20/seeking-international-support-to-block-assad&#34;

from cookielib import CookieJar
import urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
cj = CookieJar()
opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
try:
    url_file = open('sabah_url.txt', 'r')
    for line in url_file:
       print line
       #Opens each extracted URL with urllib2 library
       data = urllib2.urlopen(line).read()
       soup = BeautifulSoup(data)
       #Extracts all the dates of URLs ith its respective class as defined
       date = soup.find_all('span', {'id': 'time'})
       for item in date:
          print item 
except BaseException, e:
    print 'failed', str(e) 
    pass

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:1)

假设您计划获得发布日期,您可以从meta代码中获取

import urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = "http://www.dailysabah.com/world/2012/02/20/seeking-international-support-to-block-assad"

data = urllib2.urlopen(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(data)

print soup.find('meta', itemprop='datePublished', content=True)['content']

打印2012-02-20T17:41:01Z

要使其看起来像“2012年2月20日”,您可以使用python-dateutil模块:

>>> from dateutil import parser
>>> s = "2012-02-20T17:41:01Z"
>>> parser.parse(s)
datetime.datetime(2012, 2, 20, 17, 41, 1, tzinfo=tzutc())
>>> parser.parse(s).strftime('%B %d, %Y')
'February 20, 2012'