How to find elements by class

Question

I\'m having trouble parsing HTML elements with \"class\" attribute using Beautifulsoup. The code looks like this

soup = BeautifulSoup(sdata)
mydivs = soup.fi         


        

Answer 1

Update: 2016 In the latest version of beautifulsoup, the method 'findAll' has been renamed to 'find_all'. Link to official documentation

Hence the answer will be

soup.find_all("html_element", class_="your_class_name")

Answer 2

As of BeautifulSoup 4+ ,

If you have a single class name , you can just pass the class name as parameter like :

mydivs = soup.find_all('div', 'class_name')

Or if you have more than one class names , just pass the list of class names as parameter like :

mydivs = soup.find_all('div', ['class1', 'class2'])

Answer 3

This should work:

soup = BeautifulSoup(sdata)
mydivs = soup.findAll('div')
for div in mydivs: 
    if (div.find(class_ == "stylelistrow"):
        print div

Answer 4

Specific to BeautifulSoup 3:

soup.findAll('div',
             {'class': lambda x: x 
                       and 'stylelistrow' in x.split()
             }
            )

Will find all of these:

<div class="stylelistrow">
<div class="stylelistrow button">
<div class="button stylelistrow">

Answer 5

Try to check if the div has a class attribute first, like this:

soup = BeautifulSoup(sdata)
mydivs = soup.findAll('div')
for div in mydivs:
    if "class" in div:
        if (div["class"]=="stylelistrow"):
            print div

Answer 6

the following worked for me

a_tag = soup.find_all("div",class_='full tabpublist')