Extracting xml data

Question

I would like to extract some data from an XML file. Here is the XML file:
<post height="4093" score="14" file_url="xxxx" parent_id="" sample_url="xxxx" sample_width="850" sample_height="1202 />"

All I need is to extract the string that is stored file_url. I want this "xxxx".

https://stackoverflow.com/a/12293187/10325004 Does this help you ? — Akshay Jain, Oct 25 '20 at 16:58

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 25 '20 at 16:59

You can use xml.etree.ElementTree xml parser:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

xml = '''<post height="4093" score="14" file_url="xxxx" parent_id="" sample_url="xxxx" sample_width="850" sample_height="1202" />'''
root = ET.fromstring(xml)
print(root.attrib['file_url'])

Extracting xml data

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