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Getting the position of a tag in Beautiful Soup
schedule Aug 10, 2023
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BeautifulSoup gives us the following two positional information about a tag:
line number, which is accessed using the
sourcelinepropertystarting index of the tag in the line, which is using the
sourceposproperty
Example
Consider the following HTML document:
my_html = """ <p>Alex is 5years old</p> <p id="bob">Bob is <b>10</b> years old</p> <p>Cathy is 15 years old</p>"""soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html, "html.parser")
To get the line number and the starting index of Bob's age tag, <b>10</b>:
Note the following:
We get a 3 for the line number instead of a 2 because we've added a line break after """ in the HTML document.
The starting index 25 means that there is a total of 25 characters that come before the
btag.
WARNING
This only works when you're using either "html.parser" or "html5lib" for the parser.
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