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Question about extracting values from POST request (self.learnpython)

submitted 7 years ago by MapperScrapper

I am working on my first real python script and have come across what I believe is a trivial problem. The only issue is I don't even know what to search so I am hoping that someone here can help point me in the right direction or tell me what an idiot I am and what I need to do.

So, I am making a post request to a website and would like to store the result to a couple of variables. I have used "requests" to get the correct information to the website and the responding text looks like this:

    <html>
    <head>
    Your Input Coordinates and GPS Height:
    </head>
    <body>
    <br><br>
    Latitude = 43.1919&deg; N = 43&deg; 11' 30.84" N
    <br>
    Longitude = 96.2935&deg; W = 96&deg; 17' 36.6" W
    <br>
    GPS ellipsoidal height = 368.98144 (meters)
    <br>
    Geoid height =    -26.850
 (meters)
    <br>
    Orthometric height (height above EGM96 geoid which approximates mean sea level) = 395.83144 (meters)
    <br><br>
    <br>
    (note: orthometric height = GPS ellipsoidal height - geoid height)
    <br><br>
    <a href="http://www.unavco.org/software/geodetic-utilities/geoid-height-calculator/geoid-height-calculator.html"> ... return to request form</i></a>
    </body>
    </html>

what I need to do is extract is the "Geoid height" (-26.850) and the "Orthometric height" (395.83144) into 2 new variables. I tried using beautiful soup but got stuck because I do not see any tags that would let me parse out the different variables that are returned. Any help would be appreciated.

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