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    <p>Ok, so I have this html-page (full of different urls), where I want to grab a single url and print it.</p> <p>The webpage is: <a href="https://bdkv2.borger.dk/foa/Sider/default.aspx?fk=22&amp;foaid=11523251" rel="nofollow">https://bdkv2.borger.dk/foa/Sider/default.aspx?fk=22&amp;foaid=11523251</a></p> <p>I want to print the url www.albertslund.dk</p> <p>It looks like this in the source code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;a href="http://www.albertslund.dk" id="_uscAncHomesite" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_FormControlHandler1__uscShowDataAuthorityDetails__uscLblHomesite"&gt;http://www.albertslund.dk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; </code></pre> <p>When I try to grab it and print it by using it's ID (using BeautifulSoup and Mechanize), it just returns an empty list. I would like to grab the URL using the ID, because I'm scraping a bunch of similar sites, where the things that I want have the same ID.</p> <pre><code>kommuneside = br.open(https://bdkv2.borger.dk/foa/Sider/default.aspx?fk=22&amp;foaid=11523251) html2 = kommuneside.read() soup2 = BeautifulSoup(html2) hjemmesidelink = soup2.findAll('a', attras={'ID':'_uscAncHomesite'}) print hjemmesidelink </code></pre> <p>This returns just an empty list: []</p> <p>If I try like this:</p> <pre><code>print hjemmesidelink['href'] </code></pre> <p>I get: TypeError: list indices must be integers, not str</p> <p>I would've thought, that it was pretty straightforward, but I'm a rookie, and it has bugged me for days now.</p>
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    1. CO`print hjemmesidelink['href']` obviously returns TypeError. It is a list, and whatever comes after it inside brackets [] is considered the index of the list. It must then be an integer (a number), not `'href'`.
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    2. COYeah, that makes sense, but when I try with print hjemmesidelink[0] I get: TypeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute '__getitem__'
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    3. COThat is most likely happening because the script is not effectively fetching the url.
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