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Reputation:

How to use find_all by string with BeautifulSoup in Python?

My example code:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re

html = """
<li> <span>EAN:</span> 1111111</li>
<li> <span>Price:</span> 3</li> 
"""

soup=BeautifulSoup(html,'html.parser')
for tag in soup.find_all("li"):
   print("{0}: {1}".format(tag.name, tag.text))

Output

li:  EAN: 1111111<br>
li:  Price: 3

Expected Output

EAN: 11111

But how extract EAN: 11111 only? string=("EAN:") not working

Upvotes: 1

Views: 265

Answers (1)

HedgeHog
HedgeHog

Reputation: 25048

If you just want to print all li that contains EAN use soup.find_all('span',string=re.compile(r'EAN')):

Example

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re

html = """
<li> <span>EAN:</span> 1111111</li>
<li> <span>Price:</span> 1</li> 

<li> <span>EAN:</span> 2222222</li>
<li> <span>Price:</span> 2</li> 

<li> <span>EAN:</span> 3333333</li>
<li> <span>Price:</span> 3</li> 
"""

soup=BeautifulSoup(html,'html.parser')

for tag in soup.find_all('span',string=re.compile(r'EAN')):
    print(tag.parent.text)

Output

EAN: 1111111
EAN: 2222222
EAN: 3333333

Upvotes: 1

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