BeautifulSoup - extract the <object tag

[gcmartijn@gmail.com]

I'm trying to extract something like this:

<object classid=clsid:D 27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000
codebase="http://download.macrom edia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/
swflash.cab#ver sion=7,0,19,0" width=640 height=400>
<param name=movie value=url>
<param name=quality value=high><par am name=SCALE value=showall>
<embed src=url quality=highplu ginspage=http://www.macromedia. com/go/
getflashplayer type=applicatio n/x-shockwave-flash width=640 height=400
bgcolor=#000000 scale= showall>
</embed>
</object>

====
I don't know how I can get the param

# below don't work
for test in soup.fetch('obj ect'):
print test # nothing

# nothing
print soup.findAll('p aram',{'name':' movie'})

# nothing
print soup.findAll('o bject')

Is it possible with BeautifulSoup to extract the object tag with his
child param ?
I have made everything in BeautifulSoup so I hope its possible :S

Thanks anyway,
GCMartijn

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

Re: BeautifulSoup - extract the &lt;object tag

In <1182192028.173 189.168910@u2g2 000hsc.googlegr oups.com>, gcmartijn
wrote:

I'm trying to extract something like this:
>
<object classid=clsid:D 27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000
codebase="http://download.macrom edia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/
swflash.cab#ver sion=7,0,19,0" width=640 height=400>
<param name=movie value=url>
<param name=quality value=high><par am name=SCALE value=showall>
<embed src=url quality=highplu ginspage=http://www.macromedia. com/go/
getflashplayer type=applicatio n/x-shockwave-flash width=640 height=400
bgcolor=#000000 scale= showall>
</embed>
</object>
>
====
I don't know how I can get the param
>
# below don't work
for test in soup.fetch('obj ect'):
print test # nothing

There's no `fetch()`.

In [15]: soup.fetch('obj ect')
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
exceptions.Type Error Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/new/<ipython console>

TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable

# nothing
print soup.findAll('p aram',{'name':' movie'})

Works for me:

In [16]: soup.findAll('p aram', {'name': 'movie'})
Out[16]:
[<param name="movie" value="url">
</param>]

# nothing
print soup.findAll('o bject')

This too:

In [17]: soup.findAll('o bject')
Out[17]:
[<object classid="clsid: D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macrom edia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/
swflash.cab#ver sion=7,0,19,0" width="640" height="400">
<param name="movie" value="url">
</param><param name="quality" value="high"></param><param name="SCALE" value="showall" >
<embed src="url" quality="highpl uginspage=http://www.macromedia. com/go/" getflashplayer= "getflashplayer " type="applicati on/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="400" bgcolor="#00000 0" scale="showall" >
</embed>
</param></object>]

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch