Find the tag with a given attribute value in an HTML document using BeautifulSoup
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26 Mar, 2021
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Prerequisites: Beautifulsoup
In this article, we will discuss how beautifulsoup can be employed to find a tag with the given attribute value in an HTML document.
Approach:
- Import module.
- Scrap data from a webpage.
- Parse the string scraped to HTML.
- Use find() function to find the attribute and tag.
- Print the result.
Syntax: find(attr_name="value")
Below are some implementations of the above approach:
Example 1:
# importing module
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
markup = '''<html><body><div id="container">Div Content</div></body></html>'''
soup = BeautifulSoup(markup, 'html.parser')
# finding the tag with the id attribute
div_bs4 = soup.find(id = "container")
print(div_bs4.name)
Output:
div
Example 2:
# importing module
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
markup = '''<html><body><a href="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/">Geeks for Geeks</a></body></html>'''
soup = BeautifulSoup(markup, 'html.parser')
# finding the tag with the href attribute
div_bs4 = soup.find(href = "https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/")
print(div_bs4.name)
Output:
a
Example 3:
# importing module
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
markup = """<html><head><title>Welcome to geeksforgeeks</title></head>
<body>
<p class="title"><b>Geeks</b></p>
<p class="gfg">geeksforgeeks a computer science portal for geeks
</body>
"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(markup, 'html.parser')
# finding the tag with the class attribute
div_bs4 = soup.find(class_ = "gfg")
print(div_bs4.name)
Output:
p
