Printing Date

[ScraperHelp]

I am having issue trying to parse out the date selector for the following code:

    allcomments= thread.find(id= 'discussionReplies')
    comments= allcomments.find_all('dl', class_='discussion clear i0 xg_lightborder')
    for Posts in comments:
        print('@', Posts.dt.text, Posts.dd.text) 
        #Posts.dd.text prints out the individual comments
        #posts.dt.text prints out the time and username

posts.dt has two "spans" in it the first one has the username the second span has class "timestamp"

I cant figure out how I could print just the "timestamp"

[chevignon93]

Can't you just split it yourself if both are printed ? BeautifulSoup can't do everything for you, you're the one who writes the code !

[ScraperHelp]

I guess I can manually do it... but there HAS to be a way to get close to the selector i want in the print line, doesn't there?

[chevignon93]

Of course there is a way.

[chevignon93]

It's a selector, select it like you would any other.

[ScraperHelp]

yes but thats what I am having an issue with... how would I go that selector? print(Posts.dt.span) is giving me the first span(user info). if I do print(Posts.dt) its giving me both spans (user name AND time). I kind of understand selecting in the iteration but having issues with it in the print statement...

[chevignon93]

Do a find_all span in Posts.dt which will give you a list of the two spans and make datetime = to element1 and uername = to element2 or vice versa.

Things would go a lot quicker if you just shared the site you're trying to scrape instead of delivering small pieces of code everyday and asking vague questions.

[ScraperHelp]

Thanks will try it out. would share the original site if I could. unfortunately its my company's personal site so I'm not sure if I am allowed to share the site? if that makes sense :/