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Beautiful Soup | find_next method
schedule Aug 10, 2023
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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 all tags that come after Alex's tag:
p = soup.find(id="alex")p.find_next()
<p>Bob</p>
To find the next tag with id="cathy" after Alex's tag:
p = soup.find(id="alex")p.find_next(id="cathy")
<p id="cathy">Cathy</p>
Case when parent is not shared
A common source of confusion is when we have the following HTML document:
my_html = """ <div> <p id="alex">Alex</p> </div> <p>Bob</p>"""soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html, "html.parser")
Here, Bob's tag does not share the same parent as Alex's tag. Calling find_next(~) on Alex's tag yields:
p = soup.find(id="alex")p.find_next()
<p>Bob</p>
Notice how find_next(~) returns a tag that comes after the current tag in the HTML document.
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Official Beautiful Soup Documentation
https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#find-all-next-and-find-next
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