how do i get beautiful soup to bring back a link

[Colemen]

hey!
i just need beautiful soup to retrieve a link from site can someone
describe to me the basics of using beautiful soup?

[mehdi moradi]

you need to know which tag(e.g "p" ) of HTML code of your page contain
"link",then some line of code that show below you can retrieve all the
links
p

soup = BeautifulSoup(open("test.html"))
p_tags = soup.findAll('p',text=True)
for i, p_tag in enumerate(p_tags):
print str(i) + p_tag

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[Colemen Atwood]

that makes sense but i need just one link how can i get it to take the first link out of a body of links

[mehdi moradi]

send me your page code(html) and specify link that you want to retrieve

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Colemen Atwood
<coleymol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> that makes sense but i need just one link how can i get it to take the first
> link out of a body of links
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 6:33 AM, mehdi moradi <mehdi.m...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> you need to know which tag(e.g "p" ) of HTML code of your page contain
>> "link",then some line of code that show below you can retrieve all the

>> links wan

[Colemen Atwood]

<tr>

<td class="type"><a href="/sub/2/0/">Divx/Xvid</a></td>

<td class="name"><a href="/torrent/255004/The-Hangover-2-2011-DVDRip-XviD-MAXSPEED/" class="icon commented" >The Hangover 2 (2011) DVDRip XviD-MAXSPEED</a></td>

<td class="seeds">23631</td>

<td class="leeches">34022</td>

<td class="completed">108872</td>

<td class="size">1.47GB</td>

<td class="health"><div class="bar"><div class="inline health" style="width: 41%;"></div></div></td>

<td class="author"><a href="/user/piratepedia/" class="icon VIP">piratepedia</a></td>

</tr>

/torrent/255004/The-Hangover-2-2011-DVDRip-XviD-MAXSPEED/

i need that link but its a variable because its based on user input  and need that exact position but what the title is doesnt matter

and out of curiosity is there anyway i could get the seeds and leeches aswell?

[mehdi moradi]

ya there?
send main page me url?

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Colemen Atwood

[Colemen Atwood]

<tr>

<td class="type"><a href="/sub/2/0/">Divx/Xvid</a></td>

<td class="name"><a href="/torrent/255004/The-Hangover-2-2011-DVDRip-XviD-MAXSPEED/" class="icon commented" >The Hangover 2 (2011) DVDRip XviD-MAXSPEED</a></td>

<td class="seeds">23631</td>

<td class="leeches">34022</td>

<td class="completed">108872</td>

<td class="size">1.47GB</td>

<td class="health"><div class="bar"><div class="inline health" style="width: 41%;"></div></div></td>

<td class="author"><a href="/user/piratepedia/" class="icon VIP">piratepedia</a></td>

</tr>

"/torrent/255004/The-Hangover-2-2011-DVDRip-XviD-MAXSPEED/"

will this only bring this specific link or will it work on other pages with other links in its page?

and is there any way you know of that i could get the seeds and leeches?

[mehdi moradi]

send me web page adress http:///.....................?

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Colemen Atwood

[Colemen Atwood]

http://1337x.org/search/the%20hangover/0/

"/torrent/255004/The-Hangover-2-2011-DVDRip-XviD-MAXSPEED/"

im sorry if im an annoyance i just dont understand this portion everything else ive figured out but this is odd

[mehdi moradi]

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import codecs,re,math
from BeautifulSoup import *

fw=codecs.open("corpora/11.txt","r","utf-8")

soup = BeautifulSoup(fw.read())

for node in soup.findAll('td', attrs={'class': 'name'}):
#find all tag of "td" tath attributes 'class="name"'
mm=str(node.next)
jj=re.sub(re.compile('/".*?...</a>',re.DOTALL ) ,""
,mm).replace('<a href="',"")
#remove parts of line that starts with '/"' and end withs
'...</a>' and '<a href="'
print (jj)

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Colemen Atwood