How to extract a particular Purpose and Name using BeautifulSoup?-CodePudding

I have written following code

    page=requests.get("http://3.85.131.173:8000/random_company") 
    soup=BeautifulSoup(page.content,"html.parser")
    info_list=soup.find_all("li")
    print(info_list)

and print gives following answer

[<li>Name: Walker, Meyer and Allen</li>, <li>CEO: David Pollard</li>, <li>CTO: Sandra Boyd</li>, <li>Address: 275 Jones Station Suite 008
Bradburgh, UT 24369</li>, <li>Investment Round: C</li>, <li>Purpose: Reduced logistical contingency for whiteboard end-to-end applications</li>]

I want to extract name and position earlier I was using indexing but it was dynamic could anyone advise how to extract name and purpose.

CodePudding user response：

I think you're looking for something like this:

targets = ["Name","Purpose"]
for item in info_list:
    if item.text.split(":")[0] in targets:
        print(item.text)

Output (in this case):

Name: Jimenez LLC
Purpose: Mandatory context-sensitive approach for leverage compelling communities

CodePudding user response：

The problem with your code is you are searching the Tag element, but you want to search the text within the Tag:

for item in info_list: 
    if 'Name' in item.text or 'Purpose' in item.text:
        print(item)

<li>Name: Love and Sons</li>
<li>Purpose: Profit-focused maximized model for morph out-of-the-box technologies</li>

or print only the text from the item, replace the last line above with:

        print(item.text)

will return something like:

Name: Johnson, Miller and Woods
Purpose: Cloned content-based hierarchy for re-contextualize synergistic interfaces