Beautifulsoup - nextSibling

Question

I'm trying to get the content "My home address" using the following but got the AttributeError:

address = soup.find(text="Address:")
print address.nextSibling

This is my HTML:

<td><b>Address:</b></td>
<td>My home address</td>

What is a good way to navigate down td tag and pull the content?

Answer 1

The problem is that you have found a NavigableString, not the <td>. Also nextSibling will find the next NavigableString or Tag so even if you had the <td> it wouldn't work the way you expect.

This is what you want:

address = soup.find(text="Address:") b_tag = address.parent td_tag = b_tag.parent next_td_tag = td_tag.findNext('td') print next_td_tag.contents[0] 

Or more concise:

print soup.find(text="Address:").parent.parent.findNext('td').contents[0] 

Actually you could just do

print soup.find(text="Address:").findNext('td').contents[0] 

Since findNext just calls next over and over again, and next finds the next element as parsed repeatedly until it matches.

Answer 2

Try this if you use bs4:

print soup.find(string="Address:").find_next('td').contents[0]

Answer 3

I don't know if this was possible in 2011 but in 2021 I'd recommend you to do it using find_next_sibling() like this:

address = soup.find(text="Address:")
b = address.parent
address_td = b.parent
target_td = address_td.find_next_sibling('td')

The accepted answer works in your case but it would not work if you had something like:

<div>
  <div><b>Address:</b><div>THE PROBLEM</div></div>
  <div>target</div>
</div>

You'd end up with <div>THE PROBLEM</div> instead of <div>target</div>.