How to get a string from a tag with a specific class with Beautiful Soup

Question

I have some HTML code in a table like this:

<html>
  <head></head>
  <body>
    <tr>
      <td class="class1">data1<td/>
      <td class="class2">data2<td/>
      <td class="class3">data3<td/>
      <td class="class4">data4<td/>
      <td class="class5">data5<td/>
    </tr>
  </body>
</html>

How do I use beautiful soup to get the data/string with a specific class? When I use print(soup.body.td) I just get the first result.

Possible duplicate of [How to find elements by class](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5041008/how-to-find-elements-by-class) — DeepSpace, Sep 21 '18 at 14:43

Ian-Fogelman · Answer 1 · 2018-09-21T22:14:25.547

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Rextester

Try this:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html = '''<html>
  <head></head>
  <body>
    <tr>
      <td class="class1">data1<td/>
      <td class="class2">data2<td/>
      <td class="class3">data3<td/>
      <td class="class4">data4<td/>
      <td class="class5">data5<td/>
    </tr>
  </body>
</html>'''

soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'lxml')
results = soup.find("td", {"class" : "class1"})
print(results.text)

edited Sep 21 '18 at 22:14

answered Sep 21 '18 at 18:12

Ian-Fogelman

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Probably want `.find_all` since using class – Tomanow Sep 21 '18 at 20:29
If you use .find_all you are returned a different object type and cannot use the .text to return text inbetween the td tags – Ian-Fogelman Sep 21 '18 at 22:15

How to get a string from a tag with a specific class with Beautiful Soup

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