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Finding elements by class Finding elements by id Finding elements that are direct descendants Finding elements that contain a specific text Finding elements by tag name Finding elements that contain all the specified classes Finding elements that only contain specific attributes and no other attributes Finding elements using regular expression Limiting the number of returned results Finding elements by attribute

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Finding elements by attribute in Beautiful Soup

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Elements that contain an attribute Elements with an attribute value

To find elements by attribute in Beautiful Soup, us the select(~) method or the find_all(~) method.

Consider the following HTML document:


        
        
            
                
                
                    my_html = """
   <html>
          <p gender="male">Alex</p>
          <p gender="male">Bob</p>
          <p gender="female">Cathy</p>
   </html>
"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html)

Elements that contain an attribute

To find elements that contain the attribute "gender":


        
        
            
                
                
                    for el in soup.select("[gender]"):
    print(el)
                
            
            <p gender="male">Alex</p>
<p gender="male">Bob</p>
<p gender="female">Cathy</p>

Note that the square bracket in CSS denotes attributes.

Elements with an attribute value

To find elements that have value "male" for the "gender" attribute:


        
        
            
                
                
                    for el in soup.select("[gender='male']"):
    print(el)
                
            
            <p gender="male">Alex</p>
<p gender="male">Bob</p>

Equivalently, you could also use the find_all(~) method for this:


        
        
            
                
                
                    for el in soup.find_all(attrs={"gender": "male"}):
    print(el)
                
            
            <p gender="male">Alex</p>
<p gender="male">Bob</p>

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