Getting the nth element using BeautifulSoup

Question

From a large table I want to read rows 5, 10, 15, 20 ... using BeautifulSoup. How do I do this? Is findNextSibling and an incrementing counter the way to go?

Answer 1

You could also use findAll to get all the rows in a list and after that just use the slice syntax to access the elements that you need:

rows = soup.findAll('tr')[4::5] 

Answer 2

This can be easily done with select in beautiful soup if you know the row numbers to be selected. (Note : This is in bs4)

row = 5 while true     element = soup.select('tr:nth-of-type('+ row +')')     if len(element) > 0:         # element is your desired row element, do what you want with it          row += 5     else:         break