
findChildren() Look in the children of this PageElement and find all PageElements that match the given criteria. findChild() Look in the children of this PageElement and find the first PageElement that matches the given criteria. findAllPrevious() Look backwards in the document from this PageElement and find all PageElements that match the given criteria. findAllNext() Find all PageElements that match the given criteria and appear later in the document than this PageElement. findAll() Look in the children of this PageElement and find all PageElements that match the given criteria. find() Look in the children of this PageElement and find the first PageElement that matches the given criteria. fetchPreviousSiblings() Returns all siblings to this PageElement that match the given criteria and appear earlier in the document. fetchPrevious() Look backwards in the document from this PageElement and find all PageElements that match the given criteria.

fetchParents() Find all parents of this PageElement that match the given criteria.

fetchNextSiblings() Find all siblings of this PageElement that match the given criteria and appear later in the document. extract() Destructively rips this element out of the tree. extend() Appends the given PageElements to this one’s contents. endData() Method called by the TreeBuilder when the end of a data segment occurs. encode_contents() Renders the contents of this PageElement as a bytestring. encode() Render a bytestring representation of this PageElement and its contents. decompose() Recursively destroys this PageElement and its children. decode_contents() Renders the contents of this tag as a Unicode string. decode() Returns a string or Unicode representation of the parse tree as an HTML or XML document. currentTag() A data structure representing a parsed HTML or XML document. clear() Wipe out all children of this PageElement by calling extract() on them. Table List of BeautifulSoup Methods BeautifulSoup Method Description append() Appends the given PageElement to the contents of this one. Camel case was used in the previous version of BeautifulSoup and snake_case in the latest version. When listing BeautifulSoup methods you will discover that method names are written in two different casings: camelCase and snake_case. # write the output to html file with BeautifulSoup To parse HTML with BeautifulSoup, instantiate a BeautifulSoup constructor by adding the HTML to be parsed as a required argument, and the name of the parser as an optional argument. You could use regular expressions to parse the text content, but a better way is available: parsing with BeautifulSoup. This is not very useful as it is hard to search within it. The HTML variable that we just created is similar to the output that we would get when scraping a web page. Dolorum modi doloremque, dolore molestias quos nam a Nofollow link laboriosam neque asperiores fugit sed aut optio earum! Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Dolorum modi doloremque, dolore molestias quos nam a laboriosam neque asperiores fugit sed aut optio earum! Don't forget to select packages Wget, grep, and sed.Lorem ipsum dolor Anchor Text Link sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit.

If you're running a Windows, consider taking advantage of Cygwin. You can specify not only a preceding string for the URL to export, but also a Regular Expression pattern if you use egrep or grep -E in the command given above. Remember to replace with your actual page URL and with the preceding string you want to specify. To extract links from multiple similar pages, for example all questions on the first 10 pages on this site, use a for loop. In usual cases there may be multiple tags in one line, so you have to cut them first (the first sed adds newlines before every keyword href to make sure there's no more than one of it in a single line). If you are running on a Linux or a Unix system (like FreeBSD or macOS), you can open a terminal session and run this command: wget -O - | \
