Beautiful Soup Cheatsheet

Accessing Data in Elements

• get_text – access the inner text in an element
• name – tag name
• attrs – dictionary of attributes
• You can also access attribute values using brackets!

Navigating with Beautiful Soup

Via Tags

• parent / parents
• contents
• next_sibling / next_siblings
• previous_sibling / previous_siblings

Via Searching

• find_parent / find_parents
• find_next_sibling / find_next_siblings
• find_previous_sibling / find_previous_siblings