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Hi Guys,

What i'm trying to do is use beautiful soup to get the value of an html attribute.

<div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="VALUE_TO_RETURN"></div>

What i have so far is:

soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
print("data-sitekey=" + soup.find("div", {"class" : "data-sitekey"}))
return soup.find("div", {"class" : "data-sitekey"})

But this returns "must be str, not nulltype"

any help would be appreciated.

cheers guys

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html = '''\
<div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="VALUE_TO_RETURN"></div>'''

soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'lxml')

>>> tag = soup.find('div', class_="g-recaptcha")
>>> tag
<div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="VALUE_TO_RETURN"></div>

>>> tag.attrs
{'class': ['g-recaptcha'], 'data-sitekey': 'VALUE_TO_RETURN'}
>>> tag.attrs.get('data-sitekey')
'VALUE_TO_RETURN'

Thank you very much Snippsat :)

graham23s

snippsat

graham23s