beautifulsoup select code example

Example 1: soup.find for class

mydivs = soup.findAll("div", {"class": "stylelistrow"})

Example 2: beautifulsoup

>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup("<p>Some<b>bad<i>HTML")
>>> print soup.prettify()
<html>
<body>
<p>
Some
<b>
bad
<i>
HTML
</i>
</b>
</p>
</body>
</html>
>>> soup.find(text="bad")
u'bad'
>>> soup.i
<i>HTML</i>
#
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup("<tag1>Some<tag2/>bad<tag3>XML", "xml")
#
>>> print soup.prettify()
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8">
<tag1>
Some
<tag2 />
bad
<tag3>
XML
</tag3>
</tag1>

Example 3: beautiful soup 4

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

with open("index.html") as fp:
    soup = BeautifulSoup(fp)

soup = BeautifulSoup("<html>a web page</html>")

Example 4: children beautiful soup

li = soup.find('li', {'class': 'text'})
children = li.findChildren("a" , recursive=False)
for child in children:
    print child

Example 5: python beautifulsoup find_all

import re

soup.find_all(re.compile("^b")):
soup.find_all('b')
soup.find_all(["a", "b"])

Example 6: or symbol for select in beautiful soup

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html='''
<ol class="products-list" id="products">
    <li class="item odd">
    </li>
    <li class="item even">
    </li>
    <li class="item last even">
    </li>
</ol>
'''

page_soup=BeautifulSoup(html,'html.parser')
for item in page_soup.select(".odd,.even"):
    print(item)

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