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Meta tags and BeautifulSoup
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parsing.py
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(response)
metatags = soup.find_all('meta',attrs={'name':'generator'})
for tag in metatags:
print tag
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tags
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/>
<meta content="WordPress 3.4.2" name="generator"/>
@sampark8
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awesome thankyou i was looking for this!!

@nihanyatir
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You saved my life!

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Ixod3 commented Dec 31, 2022

Thanks for your solution :)

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swfh commented Sep 28, 2023

I am trying to find a way of parsing the meta tags into either an array or JSON as name value pairs - i.e [{'name':'title','content':'my title'},{'name':'url','content':'https//www.url.com'}]?

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