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Beautiful Soup | find method
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Beautiful Soup's find(~) method returns the first tag that matches the search criteria. If you would like to return all tags that match a particular criteria, refer to the find_all(~) method.
Examples
Basic usage
Consider the following HTML document:
my_html = """ <p id="alex">Alex</p> <p>Bob</p> <p id="cathy">Cathy</p>"""soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html, "html.parser")
To find the first <p> tag:
soup.find("p")
<p id="alex">Alex</p>
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Official Beautiful Soup Documentation
https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#find
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