Beautiful Soup: Find by Tag and Class [Examples]

Example 1: Find <div> Elements with a Specific Class

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html = """
<div class="container">
    <div class="content">This is the content</div>
</div>
<div class="content">Another content</div>
"""

# Create a BeautifulSoup object to parse the HTML
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')

# Find all <div> elements with the class "content"
content_divs = soup.find_all('div', class_='content')

# Print the text inside each matching <div> element
for div in content_divs:
    print(div.get_text())

Output:

This is the content
Another content
    

Example 2: Find Elements by Tag and Class Simultaneously

# Find <div> elements with both "container" and "content" classes
combined_divs = soup.find_all('div', class_='container content')

# Print the text inside each matching <div> element
for div in combined_divs:
    print(div.get_text())

Output:

This is the content
    

Example 3: Find Elements with a Class Prefix

# Find <div> elements with class names that start with "cont"
prefix_divs = soup.find_all('div', class_=lambda value: value and value.startswith("cont"))

# Print the text inside each matching <div> element
for div in prefix_divs:
    print(div.get_text())

Output:

This is the content
Another content
    

Example 4: Find <p> Elements with a Specific Class

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html = """
<p class="highlight">This is a highlighted paragraph</p>
<p class="highlight">Another highlighted paragraph</p>
<p>Regular paragraph</p>
"""

# Create a BeautifulSoup object to parse the HTML
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')

# Find all <p> elements with the class "highlight"
highlighted_paragraphs = soup.find_all('p', class_='highlight')

# Print the text inside each matching <p> element
for p in highlighted_paragraphs:
    print(p.get_text())

Output:

This is a highlighted paragraph
Another highlighted paragraph
    

Example 5: Find <div> Elements with Multiple Classes

# Find <div> elements with both "container" and "highlight" classes
combined_divs = soup.find_all('div', class_='container highlight')

# Print the text inside each matching <div> element
for div in combined_divs:
    print(div.get_text())

Output:

This is a highlighted div
    

Example 6: Find Elements with Specific Class and Nested Elements

html = """
<div class="container">
    <div class="highlight">This is a highlighted div</div>
    <p class="highlight">A highlighted paragraph</p>
</div>
"""

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

# Find the <div> with class "container" and then find nested <p> elements with class "highlight"
nested_highlighted_paragraphs = soup.find('div', class_='container').find_all('p', class_='highlight')

# Print the text inside each matching <p> element
for p in nested_highlighted_paragraphs:
    print(p.get_text())

Output:

A highlighted paragraph