Find H2 tag by using python BeautifulSoup

• Last modified: 26 February 2020
• Category: python libraries

In this tutorial, we'll learn how to find the h2 tag by using python BeautifulSoup.

1. Finding the H2 tag (Syntax)

find H2 tag:

soup.h2

find all H2 tags:

soup.find_all('h2')

2. Finding all h2 tags (Example)

In the first example, we'll find the H2 element.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
#html source
html_source = '''
<div id="test">
     <h2>paragraph1</h2>
</div>
'''

soup = BeautifulSoup(html_source, 'html.parser')
#find h2 tag
print(soup.h2)

output:

<h2>paragraph1</h2> 

in the second example, we'll find all the H2 tags.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
#html source
html_source = '''
<div id="test">
     <h2>paragraph1</h2>
  </div>

  <div id="test">
     <h2>paragraph2</h2>
  </div>

  <div id="test">
     <h2>paragraph3</h2>
  </div>

  <div id="test">
     <h2>paragraph4</h2>
  </div> 

  <div id="test">
     <h2>paragraph5</h2>
  </div>

  <div id="test">
     <h2>paragraph6</h2>
  </div>
'''

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



#find all 'h2' tags
find_all = soup.find_all('h2')
print(find_all)   

output:

[<h2>paragraph1</h2>, <h2>paragraph2</h2>, <h2>paragraph3</h2>, <h2>paragraph4</h2>, <h2>paragraph5</h2>, <h2>paragraph6</h2>]        

as you can see, we got all h2 tags as a list

happy coding!