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Finding elements by class in Beautiful Soup
schedule Aug 12, 2023
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To find elements by class in Beautiful Soup use the find_all(~)
or select(~)
method.
Consider the following HTML document:
my_html = """ <html> <p class="male">Alex</p> <p class="male">Bob</p> <p class="female student">Cathy</p> </html>"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html)
Single class
To find all elements that contain a class of "male"
:
To find all p
tags that contain a class of "male"
:
Multiple classes
Or selector
To find all elements that have the class "male"
or "female"
:
<p class="male">Alex</p><p class="male">Bob</p><p class="female student">Cathy</p>
And selector
To find all elements that have both classes "female"
and "student"
:
[<p class="female student">Cathy</p>]
Here, we've used the select
method instead of the find_all
method. Note that the .
syntax denotes a class.
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