Learn Attributes and Contents of Multiple Elements | Working with Element Attributes in Beautiful Soup

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All the methods covered in the previous chapter can be applied to elements with a specific tag, that is, to the result of the .find_all() method. However, since .find_all() returns a list, you must access attributes and methods for each element separately. Use a for loop for this purpose. For example, retrieve all attributes of all <div> elements.


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# 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")
for div in soup.find_all("div"):
  print(div.attrs)

The same approach works for extracting text. For example, get all the text from every <p> element.


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# 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")
for p in soup.find_all("p"):
  print(p.get_text())

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