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Getting nth child element in Beautiful Soup

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To get the 2nd child element in Beautiful Soup, for instance, use the select_one(~) method like so:


        
        
            
                
                
                    div_tag.select_one(":nth-child(2)")

The select_one(~) method takes in a CSS selector, and this is precisely the syntax we use to fetch the nth child element.

Example

Consider the following HTML document:


        
        
            
                
                
                    my_html = """
       <div>
             <p>Alex</p>
             <p>Bob</p>
             <p>Cathy</p>
       </div>
"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html)

To get the second element under the div tag:


        
        
            
                
                
                    div_tag = soup.find("div")
div_tag.select_one(":nth-child(2)")
                
            
            <p>Bob</p>

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