I have this HTML code for example:
<table class="nested4">
<tr>
<td colspan="1"></td>
<td colspan="2">
<h2 class="zeroMargin" id="govtMsg" visible="false"></h2>
</td>
<td colspan="2">
<h2 class="zeroMargin "> Net Metering Conn. </h2>
</td>
<td colspan="2">
<h2 class="zeroMargin" hidden> Life Line Consumer</h2>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<p style="margin: 0; text-align: left; padding-left: 5px">
<span>NAME & ADDRESS</span>
<br />
<span>MUHAMMAD AMIN </span>
<br />
<span>S/O MUHAMMAD KHAN </span>
<br />
<span>H-NO.38 MARGALLA ROAD </span>
<br />
<span>F-6/3 ISLAMABAD3 </span>
<br />
<span></span>
</p>
</td>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align: left">
<h2 class="color-red">Say No To Corruption</h2>
<span style="font-size: 8pt; color: #78578e"> MCO Date : 10-Aug-2018</span>
<br />
</td>
<td>
<h3 style="font-size: 14pt;"> </h3>
<h2> <br /> </h2>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="margin-top: 0;" class="border-b">
<br />
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="margin-top: 0;" class="border-b">
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="margin-top: 0;" class="border-b">
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 7%;" class="border-tb">
<td style="width: 130px" class="border-r">
<h4>METER NO</h4>
</td>
<td style="width: 90px" class="border-r">
<h4>PREVIOUS READING</h4>
</td>
<td style="width: 90px" class="border-r">
<h4>PRESENT READING</h4>
</td>
<td style="width: 60px" class="border-r">
<h4>MF</h4>
</td>
<td style="width: 60px" class="border-r">
<h4>UNITS</h4>
</td>
<td>
<h4>STATUS</h4>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 30px" class="content">
<td class="border-r">
3-P I 3301539<br> I 3301539<br> E 3301539<br> E 3301539<br>
</td>
<td class="border-r">
78693<br>16823<br>19740<br>8<br>
</td>
<td class="border-r">
80086<br>17210<br>20139<br>8<br>
</td>
<td class="border-r">
1<br>1<br>1<br>1<br>
</td>
<td class="border-r">
1393<br>387<br>399<br>0<br>
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr id="roshniMsg" style="height: 30px" class="content">
<td colspan="6">
<div style="width: 452pt">
<img style="max-width: 100%; max-height: 35%" src="/images/companies/iesco/roshniMsg.jpg"
alt="Roshni Message" />
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
From this table I want to extract the paragraph and from there I want to get all the span tags in that paragraph.
I used soup.find_all() to get the table but I don’t know how to use this function iteratively to pass it back to the original soup object so that I could find the paragraph and, moreover the span tags in that paragraph.
This is the code Python code I wrote:
soup = BeautifulSoup(string, 'html.parser')
#Getting the table tag
results = soup.find_all('table', attrs={'class':'nested4'})
#Getting the paragragh tag
results = soup.find_all('p', attrs={'style':'margin: 0; text-align: left; padding-left: 5px'})
#Getting all the span tags
results = soup.find_all('span', attrs={})
I just want help on how to get the paragraphs within the table. And then how to get the spans within the paragraph as I am getting the spans in all of the original HTML code. I don’t know how to pass the bs4 object list back to the soup object to use soup.find_all iteratively.
>Solution :
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html = '''
<table class="nested4">
<tr>
<td colspan="1"></td>
<td colspan="2">
<h2 class="zeroMargin" id="govtMsg" visible="false"></h2>
</td>
<td colspan="2">
<h2 class="zeroMargin "> Net Metering Conn. </h2>
</td>
<td colspan="2">
<h2 class="zeroMargin" hidden> Life Line Consumer</h2>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<p style="margin: 0; text-align: left; padding-left: 5px">
<span>NAME & ADDRESS</span>
<br />
<span>MUHAMMAD AMIN </span>
<br />
<span>S/O MUHAMMAD KHAN </span>
<br />
<span>H-NO.38 MARGALLA ROAD </span>
<br />
<span>F-6/3 ISLAMABAD3 </span>
<br />
<span></span>
</p>
</td>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align: left">
<h2 class="color-red">Say No To Corruption</h2>
'''
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
spans = soup.select_one('table.nested4').select('span')
for span in spans:
print(span.text)
This returns:
NAME & ADDRESS
MUHAMMAD AMIN
S/O MUHAMMAD KHAN
H-NO.38 MARGALLA ROAD
F-6/3 ISLAMABAD3