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Beautiful Soup | find_parents method
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Beautiful Soup's find_parents(~) method works its way up the parse tree and finds the parents of a particular tag or string.
Parameters
1. namelink | string | optional
The name of the tag to return.
2. attrs | string | optional
The tag attribute to filter for.
3. string | string | optional
The string to search for (rather than tag).
4. limitlink | number | optional
The number of elements to return. Defaults to all matching.
Examples
Consider the following HTML document:
my_html = """<div> <p id="alex">Alex</p> <p class="Bob">Bob</p> <p id="cathy">Cathy</p></div>"""soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html, "html.parser")
Name parameter
To retrieve "div" parent tags of the string "Bob":
bob_string.find_parents("div")
[<div> <p id="alex">Alex</p> <p class="Bob">Bob</p> <p id="cathy">Cathy</p> </div>]
Limit parameter
To limit the number of parents returned to 1 for the string "Bob":
bob_string.find_parents(limit=1)
[<p class="Bob">Bob</p>]
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Official Beautiful Soup Documentation
https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#find-parents-and-find-parent
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