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Extracting attribute values in Beautiful Soup

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Python

Beautiful Soup

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Attribute Cookbook

Jul 1, 2022

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Example

Consider the following HTML document:


        
        
            
                
                
                    my_html = """
    <p id="alex" age="10">Alex</p>
    <p id="bob" age="20">Bob</p>
"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html)

To extract the value of attributes id and age:


        
        
            
                
                
                    for el in soup.find_all("p"):
    print(el["id"] + " - " +  el["age"])
                
            
            alex - 10
bob - 20

WARNING

An error will be thrown if the element does not contain the specified attribute

In order to avoid the error, you can check whether an element contains a specific attribute by calling has_attr(~) first:


        
        
            
                
                
                    for el in soup.find_all("p"):
    if el.has_attr("age"):
        print(el.attrs["age"])

Published by Isshin Inada

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