Python BS4 fragments for extracting content from a recent web-based JAM.

jam-frags.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# open the infile for reading
file = open(infile, 'r')
  
# convert the contents of the infile to a Beautiful Soup object
soup = BeautifulSoup(file)

# create lists, a list containing bs4.element.Tag items generated by using 
# the .select() syntax - the texts and their author names are contained in 
# li elements, that nest divs containing the stuff of interest
lists = soup.select('li.message-container-li')
# extract the message text for the first Tag in the lists list

lists[0].div.find('div', {"class":"message-text cf"}).get_text().encode("utf-8")
# extract the message author name
lists[0].a.get_text().encode("utf-8")