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pythonbeautifulsoup
Eric
Eric

Reputation: 2849

BeautifulSoup targeting label and its input attributes

I'm trying to use BeautifulSoup to extract the text for the items where label class="checkbox" AND input data-filter-name="topics".

The end result should print out the 13 topics located here: https://www.pythondiscord.com/resources/

Topics should be:

I've gotten this far, but am unsure how I can combine the label and input into soup.find_all() so as to target only the 13 above. The input I'm targeting below doesn't have text to output so I am pretty sure I need some conditional formatting and or a function to accomplish this.

page = requests.get(URL)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, 'html.parser')

topics = soup.find_all('input', {"data-filter-name": "topics"})

for i in range(0, len(topics)):
    print(topics[i].text)

And here is a screenshot of the HTML in quetion:

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 52

Answers (1)

Jack Fleeting
Jack Fleeting

Reputation: 24930

There are a couple of ways of doing that, but you should probably try using css selectors:

targets = soup.select('label.checkbox input[data-filter-name="topics"]')
for target in targets:
    print(target['data-filter-item'])

Output:

algorithms-and-data-structures
data-science
databases
discord-bots
game-development
general
microcontrollers
software-design
testing
tooling
user-interface
web-development
other

Upvotes: 1

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