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PankajKushwaha
PankajKushwaha

Reputation: 928

How to get first child table row from a table in BeautifulSoup ( Python )

Here is the Code and sample results , I just want the first column of the table ignoring the rest. There are similar question on Stackoverflow but they did not help.

<tr>
<td>JOHNSON</td>
<td> 2,014,470 </td>
<td>0.81</td>
<td>2</td>
</tr>

I want JOHNSON only, as it is the first child. My python code is :

import requests
  from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 def find_raw():
      url = 'http://names.mongabay.com/most_common_surnames.htm'
      r = requests.get(url)
      html = r.content
      soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
      for n in soup.find_all('tr'):
          print n.text
  
  find_raw()

What I get:

SMITH 2,501,922 1.0061
JOHNSON 2,014,470 0.812

Upvotes: 3

Views: 7337

Answers (2)

bufh
bufh

Reputation: 3410

Iter through tr, then print text of first td:

for tr in bs4.BeautifulSoup(data).select('tr'):
    try:
        print tr.select('td')[0].text
    except:
        pass

Or shorter:

>>> [tr.td for tr in bs4.BeautifulSoup(data).select('tr') if tr.td]
[<td>SMITH</td>, <td>JOHNSON</td>, <td>WILLIAMS</td>, <td>JONES</td>, ...]

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Upvotes: 3

enrico.bacis
enrico.bacis

Reputation: 31484

You can find all the tr tags with find_all, then for each tr you find (gives only the first) td. If it exists, you print it:

for tr in soup.find_all('tr'):
    td = tr.find('td')
    if td:
        print td

Upvotes: 5

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