Working with Specific Elements
Navigating an HTML document using Python attributes retrieves only the first occurrence of an element. If you want to find the first instance of an element without knowing its full path, use the .find() method and pass the tag name as a string (without < > brackets). For example, locate the first <div> element in the HTML document.
123456789101112# Importing libraries from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from urllib.request import urlopen # Reading web page url = "https://codefinity-content-media.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/18a4e428-1a0f-44c2-a8ad-244cd9c7985e/jesus.html" page = urlopen(url) html = page.read().decode("utf-8") # Reading HTML with BeautifulSoup soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") print(soup.find("div"))
You can also retrieve all instances of a specific element using the .find_all() method. It returns a list of all matches. For example, find all <p> tags in the HTML document.
123456789101112# Importing libraries from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from urllib.request import urlopen # Reading web page url = "https://codefinity-content-media.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/18a4e428-1a0f-44c2-a8ad-244cd9c7985e/jesus.html" page = urlopen(url) html = page.read().decode("utf-8") # Reading HTML with BeautifulSoup soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") print(soup.find_all("p"))
You can use the .find_all() method to locate multiple tags by passing a list of tag names. For example, collect all <div> and <title> elements.
12345678910111213# Importing libraries from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from urllib.request import urlopen # Reading web page url = "https://codefinity-content-media.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/18a4e428-1a0f-44c2-a8ad-244cd9c7985e/page.html" page = urlopen(url) html = page.read().decode("utf-8") # Reading HTML with BeautifulSoup soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") for el in soup.find_all(["div", "title"]): print(el)
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Navigating an HTML document using Python attributes retrieves only the first occurrence of an element. If you want to find the first instance of an element without knowing its full path, use the .find() method and pass the tag name as a string (without < > brackets). For example, locate the first <div> element in the HTML document.
123456789101112# Importing libraries from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from urllib.request import urlopen # Reading web page url = "https://codefinity-content-media.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/18a4e428-1a0f-44c2-a8ad-244cd9c7985e/jesus.html" page = urlopen(url) html = page.read().decode("utf-8") # Reading HTML with BeautifulSoup soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") print(soup.find("div"))
You can also retrieve all instances of a specific element using the .find_all() method. It returns a list of all matches. For example, find all <p> tags in the HTML document.
123456789101112# Importing libraries from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from urllib.request import urlopen # Reading web page url = "https://codefinity-content-media.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/18a4e428-1a0f-44c2-a8ad-244cd9c7985e/jesus.html" page = urlopen(url) html = page.read().decode("utf-8") # Reading HTML with BeautifulSoup soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") print(soup.find_all("p"))
You can use the .find_all() method to locate multiple tags by passing a list of tag names. For example, collect all <div> and <title> elements.
12345678910111213# Importing libraries from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from urllib.request import urlopen # Reading web page url = "https://codefinity-content-media.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/18a4e428-1a0f-44c2-a8ad-244cd9c7985e/page.html" page = urlopen(url) html = page.read().decode("utf-8") # Reading HTML with BeautifulSoup soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") for el in soup.find_all(["div", "title"]): print(el)
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