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Beautiful Soup | select_one method
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Beautiful Soup's select_one(~) method returns the first tag that match a particular criteria.
Examples
Consider the following HTML document:
my_html = """<div> <p id="alex">Alex</p> <p>Bob</p> <p id="cathy">Cathy</p></div>"""soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html, "html.parser")
To return the first <p> tag under <div>:
soup.select_one("div p")
<p id="alex">Alex</p>
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