Find elements by ID python BeautifulSoup

• Last modified: 21 February 2020
• Category: python libraries

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