@staticmethod
def __get_item_attribute(item, attribute):
    """
        Returns the attribute value from a bs4 parsed item.
        :param item: bs4 item returned from PA API upon item lookup
        :param attribute: the attribute to search for
        :return: the value if found, else None
        :rtype: basestring
        """
    value = item.itemattributes.find_all(attribute, recursive=False)
    return value[0].string if len(value) == 1 else None
