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Getting Started with Beautiful Soup

You're reading from   Getting Started with Beautiful Soup Learn how to extract information from websites using Beautiful Soup and the Python urllib2 module. This practical, hands-on guide covers everything you need to know to get a head start in website scraping.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783289554
Length 130 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vineeth G Nair Vineeth G Nair
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Navigation using Beautiful Soup

Navigation in Beautiful Soup is almost the same as the searching methods. In navigating, instead of methods, there are certain attributes that facilitate the navigation. As we already saw in Chapter 2, Creating a BeautifulSoup Object, Beautiful Soup uses a different TreeBuilder to build the HTML/XML tree. So each Tag or NavigableString object will be a member of the resulting tree with the Beautiful Soup object placed at the top and other objects as the nodes of the tree.

The following code snippet is an example for an HTML tree:

html_markup = """<div class="ecopyramid">
  <ul id="producers">
    <li class="producerlist">
      <div class="name">plants</div>
      <div class="number">100000</div>
    </li>
    <li class="producerlist">
      <div class="name">algae</div>
      <div class="number&quot...
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