I am trying to learn a bit of beautiful soup, and to get some html data out of some iFrames - but I have not been very successful so far.
So, parsing the iFrame in itself does not seem to be a problem with BS4, but I do not seem to get the embedded content from this - whatever I do.
For example, consider the below iFrame (this is what I see on chrome developer tools):
<iframe frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="NO"
src="http://www.engineeringmaterials.com/boron/728x90.html "width="728" height="90">
#document <html>....</html></iframe>
where, <html>...</html>
is the content I am interested in extracting.
However, when I use the following BS4 code:
iFrames=[] # qucik bs4 example
for iframe in soup("iframe"):
iFrames.append(soup.iframe.extract())
I get:
<iframe frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="NO" src="http://www.engineeringmaterials.com/boron/728x90.html" width="728" height="90">
In other words, I get the iFrames without the document <html>...</html>
within them.
I tried something along the lines of:
iFrames=[] # qucik bs4 example
iframexx = soup.find_all('iframe')
for iframe in iframexx:
print iframe.find_all('html')
.. but this does not seem to work..
So, I guess my question is, how do I reliably extract these document objects <html>...</html>
from the iFrame elements.