Python RegEx: Not capturing all the data (python3.6, scrapy)

Question

I was trying to script a website of length information using the following simple code:

list = re.findall('(?<=Length:\s\s)[:\d]+', response.text)      
if len(list) > 0:            
    data['Length'] = list[0]        
else:            
    data['Length'] = '00:00'

However, it only gets the information if the length information is less than one hour. For example, it gets the 51:00 but not 01:08:47. I checked the source code for both shorter and longer than one hour. Here are how they look. It seems that for length more than 1 hour, there is one less white space. So I tried, but this time, list only returns a white space. Does anybody know how to get both short and long information? Thank you very much!

list = re.findall('(?<=Length:)[\s:\d]+', response.text)      
if len(list) > 0:            
    data['Length'] = list[0]        
else:            
    data['Length'] = '00:00'

Answer 1

您需要'(?<=Length:)\\s*(\\d\\d[\\s*:\\s*\\d\\d]+)' 。

Answer 2

Try this Regex and extract whatever is present in group 1:

Length\s*:\s*(\d+\s*(?::\s*\d+\s*){1,2})

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Explanation:

• Length\\s*: - matches Length literally followed by 0+ occurrences of a white-space, as many as possible
• :\\s* - matches a : followed by 0+ white-spaces
• \\d+\\s* - matches 1+ occurrences of a digit followed by 0+ white-spaces. We start capturing the text from here in Group 1. We capture until the end of the match.
• (?::\\s*\\d+\\s*){1,2} - matches either 1 or 2 occurrences of the pattern (?::\\s*\\d+\\s*)
  • (?:) - indicates a non-capturing group
  • :\\s* - matches a : followed by 0+ occurrences of a white-space
  • \\d+ - matches 1+ occurrences of a digit
  • \\s* - matches 0+ occurrences of a white-space

Alternative Regex:(without any group)

(?<=Length:\\s\\s)\\d+\\s*(?::\\s*\\d+\\s*){1,2}