# BeautifulSoup

### BeautifulSoup

Used for small projects or quick tests

### Links:

* [Find All method](https://www.skytowner.com/explore/beautiful_soup_find_all_method)
* [Beautiful Soup: Build a Web Scraper With Python](https://realpython.com/beautiful-soup-web-scraper-python/)

### Packages:

* BeautifulSoup: This module is used for iterating, searching, and modifying the parse tree over the HTML or XML parser. To download it type the below command in the terminal.
* Requests: Requests library is one of the integral part of Python for making HTTP requests to a specified URL. To download it type the below command in the terminal.

```bash
pip install beautifulsoup4
pip install requests
```

Imports:

```python
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
```

### Get the parent span from badges, find all top-level spans inside by using find\_all() with recursive=False:

```
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

page = """<div class="badges">
<span>
    <span title="9 gold badges"><span class="badge1"></span><span class="badgecount">9</span></span>
    <span title="38 silver badges"><span class="badge2"></span><span class="badgecount">38</span></span>
    <span title="56 bronze badges"><span class="badge3"></span><span class="badgecount">56</span></span>
</span>
</div>"""
```

```
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
badges = soup.body.find('div', attrs={'class': 'badges'})
for span in badges.span.find_all('span', recursive=False):
    print span.attrs['title']
```

#### prints:

`9 gold badges` `38 silver badges` `56 bronze badges`