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Jelz
Jelz

Reputation: 27

BeautifulSoup find text in specific tag

With BeautifulSoup, I'm trying to print text that's inside a specific tag, the problem is the text I want to print is inside a tag within a <tr> tag and the web page has 30 <tr> tags. The text I need to print is in the second <td> tag inside the 19th occurrence of the <tr> tag. It looks like this:

<tr>...</tr>
<tr>...</tr>
<tr>
    <td class="QL">Text1</td>
    <td class="QL">Text2</td>
    <td class="QL">Text3</td>
</tr>
<tr>...</tr>
<tr>...</tr>

I want to print Text2.

Here's my try at it:

from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
quote_page = 'http://google.com'
page = urlopen(quote_page)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page, 'html.parser')
for link in soup.find("td", {"class": "QL"}):
    print(link)

As it is, it's printing the first occurrence of the <td class="QL"> tag. How do I make it print the text inside the 19th occurrence of that tag and without having Text1 and Text3 print as well?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1777

Answers (3)

britodfbr
britodfbr

Reputation: 1991

Can be this.

result = [ x.text for x in soup.select('tr > td:nth-of-type(2)')]

Upvotes: 0

Keyur Potdar
Keyur Potdar

Reputation: 7238

As you know the exact positions of the tags you want to find, you can use find_all() which returns a list and then get the tag from the required index.

In this case, (19th <tr> and 2nd <td>) use this:

result = soup.find_all('tr')[18].find_all('td')[1].text

Upvotes: 1

Ajax1234
Ajax1234

Reputation: 71451

You can use enumerate with find_all:

result = [a.text for i, a in enumerate(soup.find_all("td", {"class": "QL"}), start=1) if i == 19][0]

Upvotes: 1

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