How to extract specific "body" from many ones in the html code

[Roman D.]

Hello,

I am new to web scraping. Could you please help me? In BeautifulSoup4 in Python,

I try to extract the information in class="body". However, I need only specific bodies, not all. In particular, the only body I need to extract is the body which goes after class="runner">Letters to<

How to tell the beautifulsoup to extract specific bodies and not the all (taking into account that they all have the same class="body")?

Please look at the snapshots attachted. With figure bracket in the second snapshot, I highlited the information I want to extract for each name of a person.

Best, Roman

[Isaac Muse]

You can certainly navigate the HTML tree manually, but one easy way is to use CSS selectors.

We want to find the "div" with the class "body" (`div.body`) but only if it comes immediately after "font" with class "runner" (`font.runner`).

The `+` symbol allows us to fund a relationship where one tag comes immediately after the other.

````

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

HTML = """
<font class="name"></font>
<div class="body">Not me</div>
<font class="runner"></font>
<div class="body">Find me!</div>
"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(HTML, 'html.parser')
print(soup.select('font.runner + div.body'))

````

This gives us the results:

```

[<div class="body">Find me!</div>]

```

Hope that helps.

[Roman D.]

Hello,

Thank you very much for your help! I've moved forward but still have trouble. I get None resutls when I try to do what is depicted in the snapshot (please, see the attachment). What am I doing wrong?

суббота, 15 апреля 2023 г. в 04:54:35 UTC+2, faceless...@gmail.com:

[Roman D.]

Hello,

One more addition. If I do this, I also struggle to obtain what I need. Can yopu please tell me possibly why?

суббота, 15 апреля 2023 г. в 17:00:30 UTC+2, Roman D.:

[Isaac Muse]

Unfortunately, without a minimal reproducible example, I can only guess what your issue is.

Also, pictures are fine, but copy/pasteable examples are a must as I don't have time to transcribe examples from images.

[Moe Meyer]

1. is he still having trouble, you could use the find_next method in BeautifulSoup to find the next "div" tag with class "body" after the "font" tag with class "runner"

   
   

   from bs4 import BeautifulSoup html = """ <div> <font class="name">John</font> <div class="body">Not me</div> <font class="runner">Letters to</font> <div class="body">Find me!</div> </div> """ soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser') # Find the font tag with class "runner" runner = soup.find('font', class_='runner') # Find the next div tag with class "body" after the font tag with class "runner" body = runner.find_next('div', class_='body') print(body.text)

   
   

   This should output

   
   
   “Find me!”
   

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