Copying Text from Item Description on ITEM ID Page

MikeMacRae — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 18:40:47 GMT

Hello, I am trying to use the ArcGIS API for Python to read the Description from the Overview page on for an item.

For reference, the item is a .csv. We use the description to store the SQL that creates the .csv and I want to be able to read the SQL text from the description in order to execute it on my database and then updated and re-publish the .csv

Using the following code, I can read the description, but it returns it in HTML format:

from arcgis.gis import GIS from pprint import pprint gis = GIS("https://myURL.com", agol_username, agol_password) item_data = gis.content.get(my_item_id) data = item_data.description pprint(data)

I am wondering if there is a way to print just the text from the Description? Something like (although 'text' is not a method in the API)

data = item_data.description.text

Any suggestions. I can't seem to find anything in the docs.

Re: Copying Text from Item Description on ITEM ID Page

EarlMedina — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 19:51:37 GMT

Maybe something like this?

import re from arcgis.gis import GIS from pprint import pprint gis = GIS("https://myURL.com", agol_username, agol_password) item_data = gis.content.get(my_item_id) data = item_data.description pattern = re.compile("<.*?>") clean_text = re.sub(pattern, "", data) pprint(clean_text)

Sounds like you just need to strip out the html tags, I think. I'm not sure what your description looks like, but you may also have to account for some other things like newline. Using print might yield better results in this case.

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