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

This can be easily done with select in beautiful soup if you know the row numbers to be selected. (Note : This is in bs4)

row = 5
while true
    element = soup.select('tr:nth-of-type('+ row +')')
    if len(element) > 0:
        # element is your desired row element, do what you want with it 
        row += 5
    else:
        break