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I am in the process of creating a web scrapping tool from scratch that I will use at my job. I work at a medical transportation company and will be scraping a website for trip information and saving it to a database. I am new to programming and felt for a "real project" it would be something interesting to tackle. I have been studying python for about 3 weeks. 2 hours a day to give you a background on my knowledge.



session.post('https://www.medanswering.com/login.taf?_function=check', params=payload)
r = session.get('https://www.medanswering.com/admintrips.taf?_function=detail&Trip_Auth_ID=' + invoice)
html_content = r.content
html_content2 = r.text
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, 'html.parser')
soup2 = BeautifulSoup(html_content2, 'html.parser')


#Grabbing the Date and time
PU_time_finder = soup2.find_all("td")[100]
print(PU_time_finder.text)

Whats happening is I obtain the data I need. However, I am retrieving it from a table on a website and the date and time I need are in the same "td" tag. Causing the output below

10/24/17
9:30 am



It appears in my console exactly like that. I thought "hmm maybe I can put it in a list" So i tried and it didnt work. I am sure there is more code needed to manipulate it a little more. I am using the libraries "requests" and "BeautifulSoup4".

P.S I did not incorporate the authentication part of my code showing the Username and password. That part is functioning correctly.

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Quote:and the date and time I need are in the same "td" tag.

Whats the exact html of the td code for that section?

I actually thought of a solution and was able to implement it. What I did was convert it to a list and removed the characters that way and converted it back to a string. Very excited it worked!