regex Y-M-D extraction from web scraping-CodePudding

I wouldl like to extract the Y-M-D information from the following html.

Created at</th><td><span><time datetime="2001-06-01"

date= [re.search("Created at</th><td><span><time datetime=([0-9A-Za-z\&;]*)", address).group(1)]
date

I have tried this code but it does not work.Do you have any ideas?

CodePudding user response：

The first argument in re.search should be the pattern and the second the string you want to extract from.

You can start trying something like:

re.search("\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}", 'Created at</th><td><span><time datetime="2001-06-01"')

And then use groups

CodePudding user response：

Try using a capturing group to isolate the date portion of the regex pattern.

date = re.search(r'time datetime="(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})"', address)
print(date.groups())

output:

('2001-06-01')