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Scrape all href into list with BeautifulSoup

I’d like to to grab links from this page and put them in a list.

I have this code:

import bs4 as bs
import urllib.request

source = urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.gcoins.net/en/catalog/236').read()
soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(source,'lxml')

links = soup.find_all('a', attrs={'class': 'view'})
print(links)

It produces following output:

[<a class="view" href="/en/catalog/view/514">
<img alt="View details" height="32" src="/img/actions/file.png" title="View details" width="32"/>
</a>, 

     """There are 28 lines more"""

      <a class="view" href="/en/catalog/view/565">
<img alt="View details" height="32" src="/img/actions/file.png" title="View details" width="32"/>
</a>]

I need to get following: [/en/catalog/view/514, ... , '/en/catalog/view/565']

But then I go ahead and add following: href_value = links.get('href') I got an error.

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Answer

Try:

soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(source,'lxml')

links = [i.get("href") for i in soup.find_all('a', attrs={'class': 'view'})]
print(links)

Output:

['/en/catalog/view/514', '/en/catalog/view/515', '/en/catalog/view/179080', '/en/catalog/view/45518', '/en/catalog/view/521', '/en/catalog/view/111429', '/en/catalog/view/522', '/en/catalog/view/182223', '/en/catalog/view/168153', '/en/catalog/view/523', '/en/catalog/view/524', '/en/catalog/view/60228', '/en/catalog/view/525', '/en/catalog/view/539', '/en/catalog/view/540', '/en/catalog/view/31642', '/en/catalog/view/553', '/en/catalog/view/558', '/en/catalog/view/559', '/en/catalog/view/77672', '/en/catalog/view/560', '/en/catalog/view/55377', '/en/catalog/view/55379', '/en/catalog/view/32001', '/en/catalog/view/561', '/en/catalog/view/562', '/en/catalog/view/72185', '/en/catalog/view/563', '/en/catalog/view/564', '/en/catalog/view/565']
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