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Finding elements by classFinding elements by idFinding elements that are direct descendantsFinding elements that contain a specific textFinding elements by tag nameFinding elements that contain all the specified classesFinding elements that only contain specific attributes and no other attributesFinding elements using regular expressionLimiting the number of returned resultsFinding elements by attribute
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Finding elements that are direct descendants in Beautiful Soup
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schedule Jul 1, 2022
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expand_more To find elements that are direct descendants in Beautiful Soup, use the find_all(~) method, passing through recursive=False.
Consider the following HTML document:
my_html = """ <div id="people"> <p>Alex</p> <div> <p>Bob</p> <p>Cathy</p> </div> <div>"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html)
By default, the find_all(~) method looks for matches recursively:
for el in soup.find(id="people").find_all("p"): print(el)
<p>Alex</p><p>Bob</p><p>Cathy</p>
To look for matches that are direct descendants only, set recursive=False, like so:
for el in soup.find(id="people").find_all("p", recursive=False): print(el)
<p>Alex</p>
Here, there is only one element with the p tag that is directly under the <div id="people">~</div>.
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