Extract value from class using BeautifulSoup-CodePudding

I need to get value "Anti-Mage" from class in python. How can I do it?

<td ><a href="/players/432283612/matches?hero=anti-mage">Anti-Mage</a><div ><a href="/matches/6107031786"><time data-time-ago="2021-07-26T23:27:54 00:00" datetime="2021-07-26T23:27:54 00:00" title="Mon, 26 Jul 2021 23:27:54  0000">2021-07-26</time></a></div></td>

CodePudding user response：

First, you'll need to select the parent item (td in this case) from its class name. You can do something like

td = soup.find('td', {'class': 'cell-xlarge'})

and then find the a children tags with something like this

a = td.findChildren('a', recursive=False)[0]

And this will give you the a tag. To get its value, you use .string like this

a_value = a.string

And that gives you the value of Anti-Mage

CodePudding user response：

Assuming HTML posted in your question is the BeautifulSoup object, call text method on the <a>:

soup.a.text

or select more specific with class you mentioned:

soup.select_one('.cell-xlarge a').text

Note: Selecting elements by class in some cases is only third best option, cause classes can be dynamic, are not unique, ... - Better strategies are to select by id, tag