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Beautiful Soup | find_parent method

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Beautiful Soup's find_parent(~) method returns the parent of a particular tag (or string).

Parameters

1. name | string | optional

The name of the tag to return.

2. attrs | string | optional

The tag attribute to filter for.

3. string | string | optional

The string to search for (rather than tag).

Examples

Consider the following HTML document:

my_html = """
<div>
    <p id="alex">Alex</p>
    <p class="Bob">Bob</p>
    <p id="cathy">Cathy</p>
</div>
"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html, "html.parser")

To find the parent of the string 'Bob':

bob_string = soup.find(string="Bob")
bob_string.find_parent()
<p class="Bob">Bob</p>

We can see that the <p class="Bob">Bob</p> tag is the parent tag of the string 'Bob'.

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Published by Arthur Yanagisawa
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