How do I get href links under a specific class with BeautifulSoup - python

This is an example of the type of block of HTML source code I'm targeting with BeautifulSoup
<div class="fighter_list left">
<meta itemprop="image" content="/image_crop/44/44/_images/fighter/1406924569376_20140801011731_Picture17.JPG">
<img class="lazy" src="/image_crop/44/44/_images/fighter/1406924569376_20140801011731_Picture17.JPG" data-original="/image_crop/44/44/_images/fighter/1406924569376_20140801011731_Picture17.JPG" alt="Jason DeLucia" title="Jason DeLucia" />
<div class="fighter_result_data">
<a itemprop="url" href="/fighter/Jason-DeLucia-22"><span itemprop="name">Jason<br />DeLucia</span></a><br>
This is one of multiple blocks like this for each "fighter_list left" on the page.
I want to get all of the itemprop="url" href links that are in the "fighter_list left" class (i.e. /fighter/Jason-DeLucia-22)
When I try the below code I get nothing.
for link in html.find_all('a', class_="fighter_List left", itemprop="url"):
print(link.get('href'))
The closest I can get is getting every itemprop=url link on the page when I omit the class_= part.
But I only want the ones under the fighter_list left class.
This is the website https://www.sherdog.com/events/UFC-1-The-Beginning-7

You can use CSS selector for the task:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = "https://www.sherdog.com/events/UFC-1-The-Beginning-7"
soup = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(url).content, "html.parser")
for link in soup.select('.fighter_list.left [itemprop="url"]'):
print(link["href"])
Prints:
/fighter/Jason-DeLucia-22
/fighter/Royce-Gracie-19
/fighter/Gerard-Gordeau-15
/fighter/Ken-Shamrock-4
/fighter/Royce-Gracie-19
/fighter/Kevin-Rosier-17
/fighter/Gerard-Gordeau-15

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Your selector isn't working because you are looking for a attribute (href) that this element doesn't have.
response.css('.text--ellipsisOneLine::attr(href)').getall()
This selector is searching for href inside elements of class text--ellipsisOneLine. In your HTML snippet that class matches only with this:
<h4 class="text--bold text--ellipsisOneLine">Liviu Cernei</h4>
As you can see, there is no href attribute. Now, if you want the text between this h4 element you need to use ::text pseudo-element.
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Read more here.
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import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
response = requests.get('https://www.meetup.com/ru-RU/Connect-IT-Meetup-in-Chisinau/members/')
if response.status_code == 200:
html_doc = response.text
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for user in users:
print(user.text)
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For a class project, I'm working on extracting all links on a webpage. This is what I have so far.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, SoupStrainer
with open("input.htm") as inputFile:
soup = BeautifulSoup(inputFile)
outputFile=open('output.txt', 'w')
for link in soup.find_all('a', href=True):
outputFile.write(str(link)+'\n')
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This works very well.
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Like the navigation page on Windows explorer. Or the navigation panel on many browsers' element inspection tool.
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soup = BeautifulSoup(inputFile, 'html.parser')
Or use lxml:
soup = BeautifulSoup(inputFile, 'lxml')
If it is not installed:
pip install lxml
Here is a solution I just wrote. It works by finding the element, then navigating up the tree by the elements parent. I parse just the opening tag and add it to a list. Reverse the list at the end. Finally we end up with a list that resembles the tree you requested.
I have written it for one element, you can modify it to work with your find_all
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
page = requests.get("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible")
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.text, 'html.parser')
tree = []
hrefElement = soup.find('a', href=True)
hrefString = str(hrefElement).split(">")[0] + ">"
tree.append(hrefString)
hrefParent = hrefElement.find_parent()
while (hrefParent.name != "html"):
hrefString = str(hrefParent).split(">")[0] + ">"
tree.append(hrefString)
hrefParent = hrefParent.find_parent()
tree.reverse()
print(tree)

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I'm working on a personal project where I scrape data from a website. I'm trying to use beautiful soup to do this but I came across data in the same class but a different attribute. For example:
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How do I just get $11.99/kg? Right now I'm getting
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You could first get the <abbr> tag and then search for the respective parent tag. Like this:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html = '''
<div class="pi--secondary-price">
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'''
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
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I am trying to collect "a" tags which are in class="featured" from a site http://www.pakistanfashionmagazine.com
I wrote this piece of code it has no error but it duplicates the links. How can I overcome this duplication ?
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
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url = raw_input("Enter a website to extract the URL's from: ")
r = requests.get(url)
data = r.text
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<img src="/siteimages/upload/BELLA-Embroidered-Lawn-Collection3-STITCHED-SUITSPKR-14000-ONLY_1529IM1-thumb.jpg" alt="Featured Product" /> </div>
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Limit your links to just one or the other; I'd use CSS selectors here:
links = soup.select('div.featured .detail a[href]')
for link in links:
print "http://www.pakistanfashionmagazine.com/" + link['href']
Now 32 links are printed, not 64.
If you needed to limit this to just the second featured section (Beauty Tips), then do so; select the featured divs, pick the second from the list, then
links = soup.select('div.featured')[1].select('.detail a[href]')
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