Hi Graeme, > I need to find the value of the class attribute, which could be > "marine-card" or "marine-card warning" but > print(section.contents) starts with the <h2 line, and > print(section.contents[0] prints only a blank line.
I think you need to know about a Tag's attributes. https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#Tag.attrs My knowledge of Python is out of date, and I've not used BeautifulSoup before, but here's some working code. $ cat parse #! /usr/bin/python3 import bs4 import requests import warnings def main(): warnings.simplefilter('ignore', category=bs4.GuessedAtParserWarning) url = 'https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/specialist-forecasts/coast-and-sea/inshore-waters-forecast' resp = requests.get(url) html = bs4.BeautifulSoup(resp.content) sect = html('section', id='inshore-waters-7', limit=2) assert len(sect) == 1, sect sect = sect[0] cls = sect['class'] print(sorted(cls)) main() $ $ ./parse ['marine-card', 'warning'] $ -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2026-06-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... https://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:[email protected]
