beautifulsoup selector code example

Example 1: how to get element details using cssselector using beautifulsoup

soup.select('div')
All elements named <div>

soup.select('#author')
The element with an id attribute of author

soup.select('.notice')
All elements that use a CSS class attribute named notice

soup.select('div span')
All elements named <span> that are within an element named <div>

soup.select('div > span')
All elements named <span> that are directly within an element named <div>, with no other element in between

soup.select('input[name]')
All elements named <input> that have a name attribute with any value

soup.select('input[type="button"]')
All elements named <input> that have an attribute named type with value button

Example 2: soup.find for class

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