[Furtivus]

Hello. I have been working on a account scrapper for the League of Legends forums. However I can't seem to get the text that's between

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<td class="author"> text here </td>

The code I am using is here:

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from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

import requests

r  = requests.get("http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=2")

data = r.text

soup = BeautifulSoup(data)

print(soup.findAll('td class="author"'))

Any help is welcomed.

[stonerdays]

A lot easier:

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import urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

webPage = urllib2.urlopen("http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=2")
html = webPage.read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
for td in soup.findAll('td',({'class':'author'})):
    authorText = td.contents[0]
    print ("[+] Found author: %s" % authorText)

Piece of cake, use Google.

[TheBeast808]

For something this simple, you could alternatively use regexes.

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import urllib2, re

webPage = urllib2.urlopen("http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=2")
html = webPage.read()
matches = re.findall("<td class=\"author\">.*?</td>", html)
names = [match.replace("<td class=\"author\">", "").replace("</td>", "") for match in matches]
print "Authors: " + str(names)

The above may also be a bit faster than the above examples using BeautifulSoup since it does not need to parse the html and build an internal structure for it.