How to get form action element using beautiful soup?

Question

I am trying to grab a form action using beautiful soup

I have tried print(soup.find('form').find_all('action')) but that doesnt work. Wondering if there is an easy way. ( I am trying to get the rest of the string after ?dwcont= )

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 13 '20 at 17:30

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action is an attribute, .find_all() is for finding elements. Use ['action'].

print(soup.find('form')['action'])

answered Dec 13 '20 at 17:30

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 13 '20 at 17:35

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action = soup.find('form').get('action')
print(action.split("?dwcont=",1)[1])

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How to get a string after a specific substring?

Getting form "action" from BeautifulSoup result

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