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Arevos · May 23rd, 2006, 11:09 AM

Close, but not quite. "findParent" finds the first parent that matches a certain tag. It does not return a list, so indicies (like [2]) won't work on it.

Instead, you need to find the 3rd matching piece of text. This means you have to use fetchText (which gets a list of all matches) instead of firstText (which gets the first match), and apply an index to that.

Or, to put it another way:

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soup.firstText("Company")

Is the same as:

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soup.fetchText("Company")[0]

Hopefully, you should be able to guess now what code you need.

May 23rd, 2006, 11:09 AM	#123
Arevos Programming Guru Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: England Posts: 1,499 Rep Power: 5	Close, but not quite. "findParent" finds the first parent that matches a certain tag. It does not return a list, so indicies (like [2]) won't work on it. Instead, you need to find the 3rd matching piece of text. This means you have to use fetchText (which gets a list of all matches) instead of firstText (which gets the first match), and apply an index to that. Or, to put it another way: (Toggle Plain Text) soup.firstText("Company") soup.firstText("Company") Is the same as: (Toggle Plain Text) soup.fetchText("Company")[0] soup.fetchText("Company")[0] Hopefully, you should be able to guess now what code you need.