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

Here's how you could scrape every 5th distribution link on this Wikipedia page with gazpacho:

from gazpacho import Soup

url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_probability_distributions"
soup = Soup.get(url)

a_tags = soup.find("a", {"href": "distribution"})
links = ["https://en.wikipedia.org" + a.attrs["href"] for a in a_tags]

links[4::5] # start at 0,1,2,3,**4** and stride by 5