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Arevos · May 22nd, 2006, 11:28 AM

Yep; in theory you could do something like:

soup.fetch("table")[5].fetch("tr")[2].fetch("td")[1].string

That would get you the contents of the cell on the 3rd row down and 2rd column across, on the fifth table on the page. The fetch method works with any tag.

(The .string at the end gets the contents of the tag, just as ['href'] gets the href attribute of the tag)

May 22nd, 2006, 11:28 AM	#104
Arevos Programming Guru Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: England Posts: 1,499 Rep Power: 5	Yep; in theory you could do something like: (Toggle Plain Text) soup.fetch("table")[5].fetch("tr")[2].fetch("td")[1].string soup.fetch("table")[5].fetch("tr")[2].fetch("td")[1].string That would get you the contents of the cell on the 3rd row down and 2rd column across, on the fifth table on the page. The fetch method works with any tag. (The .string at the end gets the contents of the tag, just as ['href'] gets the href attribute of the tag)