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Hi I cannot figure out how to find links which begin with certain text for the life of me. findall('a') works fine, but it's way too much. I just want to make a list of all links that begin with http://www.nhl.com/ice/boxscore.htm?id=
Can anyone help me?
Thank you very much
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find() method The find method is used for finding out the first tag with the specified name or id and returning an object of type bs4. Example: For instance, consider this simple HTML webpage having different paragraph tags.
First set up a test document and open up the parser with BeautifulSoup:
>>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
>>> doc = '<html><body><div><a href="something">yep</a></div><div><a href="http://www.nhl.com/ice/boxscore.htm?id=3">somelink</a></div><a href="http://www.nhl.com/ice/boxscore.htm?id=7">another</a></body></html>'
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(doc)
>>> print soup.prettify()
<html>
<body>
<div>
<a href="something">
yep
</a>
</div>
<div>
<a href="http://www.nhl.com/ice/boxscore.htm?id=3">
somelink
</a>
</div>
<a href="http://www.nhl.com/ice/boxscore.htm?id=7">
another
</a>
</body>
</html>
Next, we can search for all <a> tags with an href attribute starting with http://www.nhl.com/ice/boxscore.htm?id=. You can use a regular expression for it:
>>> import re
>>> soup.findAll('a', href=re.compile('^http://www.nhl.com/ice/boxscore.htm\?id='))
[<a href="http://www.nhl.com/ice/boxscore.htm?id=3">somelink</a>, <a href="http://www.nhl.com/ice/boxscore.htm?id=7">another</a>]
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