What is contents in beautifulsoup4 and the number string?-CodePudding

I'm trying a web scraping in bs4 and I don't know what it is, Pls Someone explain it to me tnx

 name = div.contents[0].string   div.contents[1]

CodePudding user response：

The contents attribute holds a list of child elements of the element. The .string attribute of an element contains the text content for the element.

Using this page as an example:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from pprint import pprint

resp = requests.get("https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73842279/what-is-contents-in-beautifulsoup4-and-the-number-string")
soup = BeautifulSoup(resp.text, 'html.parser')

for elem in soup.find_all('div'):
    if elem.has_attr('id') and elem['id'].strip() == "question-header":
        pprint(elem.contents)

        pprint(elem.contents[1].string)

output for elem.contents

['\n',
 <h1  itemprop="name"><a  href="/questions/73842279/what-is-contents-in-beautifulsoup4-and-the-number-string">What is conten
ts in beautifulsoup4 and the number string?</a></h1>,
 '\n',
 <div >
<a  href="/questions/ask">
        Ask Question
    </a>
</div>,
 '\n']

output for elem.contents[1].string

'What is contents in beautifulsoup4 and the number string?'