How to use Beautiful Soup to extract string in <script> tag?

Question 1

In a given .html page, I have a script tag like so:

     <script>jQuery(window).load(function () {
  setTimeout(function(){
    jQuery("input[name=Email]").val("name@email.com");
  }, 1000);
});</script>

How can I use Beautiful Soup to extract the email address?

Question 2

To add a bit more to the @Bob's answer and assuming you need to also locate the script tag in the HTML which may have other script tags.

The idea is to define a regular expression that would be used for both locating the element with BeautifulSoup and extracting the email value:

import re

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


data = """
<body>
    <script>jQuery(window).load(function () {
      setTimeout(function(){
        jQuery("input[name=Email]").val("name@email.com");
      }, 1000);
    });</script>
</body>
"""
pattern = re.compile(r'\.val\("([^@]+@[^@]+\.[^@]+)"\);', re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL)
soup = BeautifulSoup(data, "html.parser")

script = soup.find("script", text=pattern)
if script:
    match = pattern.search(script.text)
    if match:
        email = match.group(1)
        print(email)

Prints: name@email.com.

Here we are using a simple regular expression for the email address, but we can go further and be more strict about it but I doubt that would be practically necessary for this problem.

How to use Beautiful Soup to extract string in <script> tag?

Mangs

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