Extract part of a regex match

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00:00 Extract Part Of A Regex Match
00:23 Answer 1 Score 7
00:31 Accepted Answer Score 385
00:48 Answer 3 Score 12
00:59 Answer 4 Score 10
01:11 Thank you

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#python #html #regex #htmlcontentextraction

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 385

Use ( ) in regexp and group(1) in python to retrieve the captured string (re.search will return None if it doesn't find the result, so don't use group() directly):

title_search = re.search('<title>(.*)</title>', html, re.IGNORECASE)

if title_search:
    title = title_search.group(1)

ANSWER 2

Score 12

Try using capturing groups:

title = re.search('<title>(.*)</title>', html, re.IGNORECASE).group(1)

ANSWER 3

Score 10

May I recommend you to Beautiful Soup. Soup is a very good lib to parse all of your html document.

soup = BeatifulSoup(html_doc)
titleName = soup.title.name

ANSWER 4

Score 7

Try:

title = re.search('<title>(.*)</title>', html, re.IGNORECASE).group(1)