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Getting all parent tags of a tag in Beautiful Soup
schedule Aug 11, 2023
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To get all parent tags of a tag in Beautiful Soup, use the Tag.parents
property, which returns a generator for iterating over the parent tags.
Example
Consider the following HTML document:
my_html = """ <div id="people"> <div id="profile"> <p>Alex</p> </div> </div>"""soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html)
To print the id
of the parent elements of <p>Alex</p>
:
Notice how we had to first check whether the parent tag contains the id
attribute. Beautiful Soup's top-most level element does not contain the id attribute, so without this check, an error will be thrown.
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