try: from HTMLParser import HTMLParser except ImportError: from html.parser import HTMLParser class CSRFParser(HTMLParser): def __init__(self, field_name): HTMLParser.__init__(self) self.field_name = field_name self.csrf_token = None def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs): if tag != 'input': return attrdict = dict(attrs) if attrdict.get('name', '') == self.field_name: self.csrf_token = attrdict.get('value', None) handle_startendtag = handle_starttag