Python Penetration Testing Cookbook

How to do it...

Here is how we can parse XML data with XML module:

1. First import the required modules. As this script is in Python 3, make sure that you import the correct modules:

from urllib.request import urlopen 
from xml.etree.ElementTree import parse 

2. Now get the XML file with the urlopen method in the urllib module:

url = urlopen('http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch/Google') 

3. Now parse the XML file with the parse method in the xml.etree.ElementTree module:

xmldoc = parse(url) 

4. Now iterate and print the details in XML:

for item in xmldoc.iterfind('channel/item'): title = item.findtext('title') desc = item.findtext('description') date = item.findtext('pubDate') link = item.findtext('link') print(title) print(desc) print(date) ...