How to find children of nodes using BeautifulSoup

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I want to get all the  lt a gt  tags which are children of  lt li gt     lt div gt   lt li class  test  gt       lt a gt link1 lt  a gt       lt ul gt           lt li gt               lt a gt link2 lt  a gt           lt  li gt       lt  ul gt   lt  li gt   lt  div gt    I know how to find element with particular class like this   soup find  li      class     test        But I don t know how to find all  lt a gt  which are children of  lt li class test gt  but not any others   Like I want to select    lt a gt link1 lt  a gt

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Try this li   soup find  li     class    text    children   li findChildren  quot a quot    recursive False  for child in children      print child

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Yet another method - create a filter function that returns True for all desired tags   def my filter tag       return  tag name     a  and         tag parent name     li  and          test  in tag parent  class      Then just call find all with the argument   for a in soup my filter     or soup find all my filter      print a

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try this   li   soup find  li      class     test     children   li find all  a     returns a list of all  lt a gt  children of li   other reminders   The find method only gets the first occurring child element  The find all method gets all descendant elements and are stored in a list

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There s a super small section in the DOCs that shows how to find find all direct children   https   www crummy com software BeautifulSoup bs4 doc  the-recursive-argument  In your case as you want link1 which is first direct child     for only first direct child soup find  li      class     test     find  a   recursive False    If you want all direct children     for all direct children soup find  li      class     test     findAll  a   recursive False

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Perhaps you want to do  soup find  li      class     test     find  a

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How to find all a which are children of  lt li class test gt  but not any others    Given the HTML below  I added another  lt a gt  to show te difference between select and select one     lt div gt     lt li class  test  gt       lt a gt link1 lt  a gt       lt ul gt         lt li gt           lt a gt link2 lt  a gt         lt  li gt       lt  ul gt       lt a gt link3 lt  a gt     lt  li gt   lt  div gt    The solution is to use child combinator   gt   that is placed between two CSS selectors    gt  gt  gt  soup select  li test  gt  a     lt a gt link1 lt  a gt    lt a gt link3 lt  a gt     In case you want to find only the first child    gt  gt  gt  soup select one  li test  gt  a    lt a gt link1 lt  a gt

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