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Finding elements by id in Beautiful Soup
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schedule Jul 1, 2022
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expand_more To extract elements by id in Beautiful Soup:
use the
find_all(~)method with argumentid.use the
select(css_selector)method.
Just as an example, consider the following HTML document:
my_html = """ <p id="person_one">Alex</p> <p id="person_two">Bob</p> <p id="person_three">Cathy</p>"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html)
Find method
To extract the element with an id of "person_two" using the find method:
[<p id="person_two">Bob</p>]
Note that typically the ids of the elements are unique, so you might prefer to use soup.find(~) instead:
<p id="person_two">Bob</p>
Select method
To extract the element with an id of "person_two" using the select(~) method:
[<p id="person_two">Bob</p>]
A couple of things to note here:
make sure to prepend the
#character before theidnamethe returned type is always a list
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