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Poliakoff
Poliakoff

Reputation: 1672

Beatifulsoup: how to find all elements 2nd parent of which has exact attribute?

I have html structured like this:

<div class="value_i_need_to_match">
    <div>
        <a href="..."</a>
        <a href="..."</a>
        <a href="..."</a>
    </div>
</div>
<div class="some_other_value">
    <div>
        <a href="..."</a>
        <a href="..."</a>
        <a href="..."</a>
    </div>
</div>

I need to extract all <a> elements second level parent of which has class attribute with value that matches to value_i_need_to_match. How to do this? I tried:

 soup_post.find_all(
            lambda tag: tag.name == "a" and tag.parent.parent.find('div').attrs['class'] is 'value_i_need_to_match'))

and

soup_post.find_all(
            lambda tag: tag.name == "a" and tag.findParent('div').attrs["class"] == "value_i_need_to_match"))

Upvotes: 1

Views: 45

Answers (1)

alecxe
alecxe

Reputation: 473893

We can do that in a single go with a CSS selector:

soup_post.select(".value_i_need_to_match > div > a")

where > means a direct parent-child relationship.

Upvotes: 2

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