BeautifulSoup and class with spaces

Question

With BeautifulSoul and Python, I want to find_all all the tr items matching a given class attribute that contains multiple names like this one:

<tr class="admin-bookings-table-row bookings-history-row  paid   ">

I have tried several ways to match that class. Regular expressions, wildcards but I always get an empty list.

Is there any way to use regular expressions, wildcards or how to match this class?

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Answer 1

you can use a css selector to match many classes :

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup
html = '''
<tr class="admin-bookings-table-row bookings-history-row  paid   "></tr>
<tr class="admin-bookings-table-row  nope  paid   "></tr>
'''
soup = soup(html, 'lxml')

res = soup.select('tr.admin-bookings-table-row.bookings-history-row.paid')
print(res)

>>> [<tr class="admin-bookings-table-row bookings-history-row paid "></tr>]

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Otherwise, maybe this answer can help you too : https://stackoverflow.com/a/46719501/6655211

Answer 2

HTML class can't contain spaces. This element has multiple classes.

Searching by either of these classes works:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html = '<tr id="history_row_938220" style="" class="admin-bookings-table-row bookings-history-row  paid   ">'


soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')

print(soup.find_all(attrs={'class': 'admin-bookings-table-row'}))
print(soup.find_all(attrs={'class': 'bookings-history-row'}))
print(soup.find_all(attrs={'class': 'paid'}))

All output

[<tr class="admin-bookings-table-row bookings-history-row paid " 
 id="history_row_938220" style=""></tr>]