Python adding a string to a match list with multiple items

Question

The code I am working on is retrieving a list from an HTML page with 2 fields, URL, and title...

The URL anyway starts with /URL.... And I need to append the " http://website.com " to every returned vauled from a re.findall .

The code so far is this:

bsoup=bs(html)
tag=soup.find('div',{'class':'item'})
reg=re.compile('<a href="(.+?)" rel=".+?" title="(.+?)"')
links=re.findall(reg,str(tag))
*(append "http://website.com" to the href"(.+?)" field)*
return links

Answer 1

Try:

for link in tag.find_all('a'):
    link['href'] = 'http://website.com' + link['href']

Then use one of these output methods:

return str(soup) gets you the document after the changes are applied.

return tag.find_all('a') gets you all the link elements.

return [str(i) for i in tag.find_all('a')] gets you all the link elements converted to strings.

Now, don't try to parse HTML with regex while you have a XML parser already working.