Getting the nth element using BeautifulSoup

Question

From a large table I want to read rows 5, 10, 15, 20 ... using BeautifulSoup. How do I do this? Is findNextSibling and an incrementing counter the way to go?

Answer 1

You could also use findAll to get all the rows in a list and after that just use the slice syntax to access the elements that you need:

rows = soup.findAll('tr')[4::5]