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Finding elements Cookbook
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 using regular expression in Beautiful Soup
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schedule Jul 1, 2022
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expand_more To find elements using regular expression, use the find_all(~)
method and pass in the regular expression for the text
parameter.
Example
Consider the following HTML document:
my_html = """ <p>A cat sat</p> <p>on a mat</p>"""soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html)
To find all elements that contain the words "cat"
and "mat"
:
Since we've specified the text
parameter, the return value of find_all(~)
is a list of NavigableString
objects. These objects are just like your standard Python string, except that they have helper properties and methods to navigate around the HTML document. Here, we're using its parent
property, which returns the enclosing Tag
object.
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