Parent and Children Cookbook

Accessing an element's parent Checking if a tag contains any child elements Getting all child nodes Getting all immediate children Getting all parent tags of a tag Getting nth child element Getting number of child elements of a tag Getting number of direct child elements of a tag

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Getting number of child elements of a tag in Beautiful Soup

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Python

Beautiful Soup

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Parent and Children Cookbook

Jul 1, 2022

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Example

Consider the following HTML document:


        
        
            
                
                
                    my_html = """
      <p>Alex/p>
      <div>
             <p>Bob</p>
             <p>Cathy</p>
      </div>
"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html)

To get the number of child elements of <p>Alex</p>:


        
        
            
                
                
                    tag_alex = soup.find("p")
count_children = len(tag_alex.find_all())
print(count_children)
                
            
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To get the number of child elements of <div>~</div>:


        
        
            
                
                
                    tag_div = soup.find("div")
count_children = len(tag_div.find_all())
print(count_children)
                
            
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