python - Using BeautifulSoup to extract the title of a link

Question

I'm trying to extract the title of a link using BeautifulSoup. The code that I'm working with is as follows:

url = "http://www.example.com"
source_code = requests.get(url)
plain_text = source_code.text
soup = BeautifulSoup(plain_text, "lxml")
for link in soup.findAll('a', {'class': 'a-link-normal s-access-detail-page  a-text-normal'}):
    title = link.get('title')
    print title

Now, an example link element contains the following:

<a class="a-link-normal s-access-detail-page a-text-normal" href="http://www.amazon.in/Introduction-Computation-Programming-Using-Python/dp/8120348664" title="Introduction To Computation And Programming Using Python"><h2 class="a-size-medium a-color-null s-inline s-access-title a-text-normal">Introduction To Computation And Programming Using <strong>Python</strong></h2></a>

However, nothing gets displayed after I run the above code. How can I extract the value stored inside the title attribute of the anchor tag stored in link?

Answer 1

Well, it seems you have put two spaces between s-access-detail-page and a-text-normal, which in turn, is not able to find any matching link. Try with correct number of spaces, then printing number of links found. Also, you can print the tag itself - print link

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = "http://www.amazon.in/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=python"
source_code = requests.get(url)
plain_text = source_code.content
soup = BeautifulSoup(plain_text, "lxml")
links = soup.findAll('a', {'class': 'a-link-normal s-access-detail-page a-text-normal'})
print len(links)
for link in links:
    title = link.get('title')
    print title