python - Extracting image src based on attribute with BeautifulSoup

Question

I'm using BeautifulSoup to get a HTML page from IMDb, and I would like to extract the poster image from the page. I've got the image based on one of the attributes, but I don't know how to extract the data inside it.

Here's my code:

url = 'http://www.imdb.com/title/tt%s/' % (id)
soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib2.urlopen(url).read())
print("before FOR")
for src in soup.find(itemprop="image"): 
    print("inside FOR")
    print(link.get('src'))

Answer 1

You're almost there - just a couple of mistakes. soup.find() gets the first element that matches, not a list, so you don't need to iterate over it. Once you have got the element, you can get its attributes (like src) using dictionary access. Here's a reworked version:

film_id = '0423409'
url = 'http://www.imdb.com/title/tt%s/' % (film_id)
soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib2.urlopen(url).read())
link = soup.find(itemprop="image")
print(link["src"])
# output:
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTg2ODMwNTY3NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzczNjEzMQ@@._V1_SY317_CR0,0,214,317_.jpg

I've changed id to film_id, because id() is a built-in function, and it's bad practice to mask those.