Pass a string to a search method and Beautiful Soup will perform a match against that exact string. You can avoid this by passing in a Unicode string instead. If you pass in a regular expression object, Beautiful Soup will filter against that regular expression using its match method. If you pass in a list, Beautiful Soup will allow a string match against any item in that list. The value True matches everything it can. This code finds all the tags in the document, but none of the text strings:.
If none of the other matches work for you, define a function that takes an element as its only argument. Please see the official documentation if you want to do that. Released: Sep 8, View statistics for this project via Libraries. Beautiful Soup is a library that makes it easy to scrape information from web pages. To go beyond the basics, comprehensive documentation is available. Beautiful Soup's support for Python 2 was discontinued on December 31, one year after the sunset date for Python 2 itself.
From this point onward, new Beautiful Soup development will exclusively target Python 3. The final release of Beautiful Soup 4 to support Python 2 was 4. If you use Beautiful Soup as part of your professional work, please consider a Tidelift subscription.
This will support many of the free software projects your organization depends on, not just Beautiful Soup. If you use Beautiful Soup for personal projects, the best way to say thank you is to read Tool Safety , a zine I wrote about what Beautiful Soup has taught me about software development.
Run make html in that directory to create HTML documentation. Sep 8, Oct 3, Oh no! Some styles failed to load. Help Create Join Login. Application Development. IT Management. Project Management. Resources Blog Articles. Menu Help Create Join Login. Get project updates , sponsored content from our select partners, and more. Learn more. Asked 12 years, 4 months ago. Active 1 year, 4 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question.
QHarr Here's an updated code snippet that does exactly what you're asking for in 30 lines. Is it not possible to get the full accessible link? I want to get links to all pdfs available on the website MujeebIshaque — x Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Bryce Guinta 2, 34 34 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges.
On version 3. Updated code for python3 and latest bs4 - gist. Show 5 more comments. For completeness sake, the BeautifulSoup 4 version, making use of the encoding supplied by the server as well: from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import urllib. Is there something like StrainedSoup for bs4? I don't need it now but just wondering, if there is you'd might want to add that — Antti Haapala. AnttiHaapala: SoupStrainer you mean? It didn't go anywhere, it is still part of the project. BeautifulSoup gives me a warning about using a default parser.
MikeB: when I wrote this answer BeautifulSoup didn't yet raise a warning if you didn't. An example with lxml and xpath would look like this: import urllib import lxml.
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