How would I access this information via Beautifulsoup? - python-2.7

Question

How would I find the value for example context with beautifulsoup?
This is what some of what I get when I print my Beautiful var in Python.
<script>
(function (root) {
root['__playIT'] = {"context":{"dispatcher":{"stores"}
}(this));
</script>

Answer 1

With BeautifulSoup, you can only locate the desired script element. Then, to extract the actual context value, you can use, for example, regular expressions:
import re
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
data = """
<script>
(function (root) {
root['__playIT'] = {"context":{"dispatcher":{"stores"}
}(this));
</script>"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(data, "html.parser")
pattern = re.compile(r'"context":(\{.*?)$', re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL)
script = soup.find("script", text=pattern)
result = pattern.search(script.text).group(1)
print(result)
Prints:
{"dispatcher":{"stores"}
Note that, if the value would have been the valid JSON string, you could have loaded it with json.loads().