Find elements by ID python BeautifulSoup
In this tutorial, we'll learn how to find elements by attribute id using BeautifulSoup.
1. Finding all H2 elements by Id
Syntax
soup.find_all(id='Id value')
Example
in the following example, we'll find all elements that have "test" as ID value.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
#html source
html = '''
<div id="test">
<h2>hello world1</h2>
</div>
<div id="test">
<h2>hello world2</h2>
</div>
<div id="test">
<h2>hello world3</h2>
</div>
<div id="test">
<h2>hello world4</h2>
</div>
<div id="test">
<h2>hello world5</h2>
</div>
<div id="test">
<h2>hello world6</h2>
</div>
'''
soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
#find elements
find_all_id = soup.find_all(id='test')
#print elements
print(find_all_id)
Output
[<div id="test">
<h2>hello world1</h2>
</div>, <div id="test">
<h2>hello world2</h2>
</div>, <div id="test">
<h2>hello world3</h2>
</div>, <div id="test">
<h2>hello world4</h2>
</div>, <div id="test">
<h2>hello world5</h2>
</div>, <div id="test">
<h2>hello world6</h2>
</div>]
2. getting H2's value
After getting the result, let's now get H2's tag value.
#getting h2 value
for i in find_all_id:
print(i.h2.string)
output
hello world1
hello world2
hello world3
hello world4
hello world5
hello world6
