How to use BeautifulSoup
to find an html element that contains spaces in its attributes
<h1 class='td p1'> title that i want </h1> <h1 class='td p2'> title that i don't want </h1> <h1 class='p1'> title that i don't want </h1>
I would like to know how to use soup.find
to find the title that i want
.
Because beautifulsoup
considers the attribute attrs of title 'that i want'
like this: {'class': ['td', 'p1']}.<br>
But not like this: {'class': ['td p1']}
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Answer
Note Different approaches but both have in common to select the classes explicitly.
find()
soup.find('h1', attrs={'class':'td p1'})
select_one()
soup.select_one('h1.td.p1')
Example
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup data=""" <h1 class='td p1'> title that i want </h1> <h1 class='td p2'> title that i don't want </h1> <h1 class='p1'> title that i don't want </h1> """ soup=BeautifulSoup(data,"html.parser") title = soup.select_one('h1.td.p1') print(title)
Output
<h1 class="td p1"> title that i want </h1>