[Solved] How to get data from a combobox using Beautifulsoup and Python?

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From what I can see of the html, there is no span with id="sexo- button", so BeautifulSoup(login_request.text, 'lxml').find("span",id="sexo- button") would have returned None, which is why you got the error from get_text.

As for your second attempt, I don’t think bs4 Tags have a value property, which is why you’d be getting None that time.

You should actually try combining the two like:

sexo = BeautifulSoup(login_request.text, 'lxml').select_one('select[name=sexo] option[selected]').get_text(strip=True)

(If it doesn’t work, you should individually print to see what ...select_one('select[name=sexo]') and ...select_one('select[name=sexo] option[selected]') will return, in case the page itself wasn’t loaded properly by session)

You should also note that with the combined code, you’ll actually get [SELECCIONAR], since that’s also selected according to the html provided. To skip that, you can instead try:

selectedOpts = BeautifulSoup(login_request.text, 'lxml').select('select[name=sexo] option[selected]')
selectedOpts = [s for s in selectedOpts if s.get('value')]
sexo = selectedOpts[0] if selectedOpts else None

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solved How to get data from a combobox using Beautifulsoup and Python?