Search in string and scrape using REGEX python-CodePudding

Im trying to get a specific part from a string which changes from a result to another here's an example:

?v=Vc2nuekbxo:Video taken down... by Pfilip 6 months ago 38 seconds 149,492
?v=Ec2nIbkcxo:Video down... by Pfilip 8 months ago 9 minutes, 10 seconds 988,742
?v=Rc2nIbkbxo:Video up... by Pfilip 1 months ago 50 seconds 85,742

so im trying to collect the length which is 38 seconds, 10 seconds and 50 seconds in this case, how can i do this knowing that the results can be diffrent each time

CodePudding user response：

Using regex this can be obtained as (for the input you provided):

import re
data = ['?v=Vc2nuekbxo:Video taken down... by Pfilip 6 months ago 38 seconds 149,492',
'?v=Ec2nIbkcxo:Video down... by Pfilip 8 months ago 9 minutes, 10 seconds 988,742',
'?v=Rc2nIbkbxo:Video up... by Pfilip 1 months ago 50 seconds 85,742']

for item in data:
    if time := re.search(r'.*\s([0-9] \s*seconds)', item):
        print (time.group(1))

Output:

38 seconds
10 seconds
50 seconds