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Finding elements by attribute in Beautiful Soup
Beautiful Soup
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schedule Jul 1, 2022
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To find elements by attribute in Beautiful Soup, us the select(~)
method or the find_all(~)
method.
Consider the following HTML document:
my_html = """ <html> <p gender="male">Alex</p> <p gender="male">Bob</p> <p gender="female">Cathy</p> </html>"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html)
Elements that contain an attribute
To find elements that contain the attribute "gender"
:
Note that the square bracket in CSS denotes attributes.
Elements with an attribute value
To find elements that have value "male"
for the "gender"
attribute:
Equivalently, you could also use the find_all(~)
method for this:
print(el)
<p gender="male">Alex</p><p gender="male">Bob</p>
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