I want to get the value of multiple ids inside an a tag that resides in a div

Question

Here's the HTML code:

<div class="sizeBlock">
 <div class="size"> 
    <a class="selectSize" id="44526" data-size-original="36.5">36.5</a> 
 </div> 
 <div class="size inactive active"> 
    <a class="selectSize" id="44524" data-size-original="40">40</a> 
 </div> 
 <div class="size "> 
    <a class="selectSize" id="44525" data-size-original="40.5">40.5</a> 
 </div> 
</div>

I want to get the values of the id tag and the data-size-original.

Here's my code:

for sizeBlock in soup.find_all('a', class_="selectSize"):
        aid  = sizeBlock.get('id')
        size = sizeBlock.get('data-size-us')

The problem is that it gets the values of other ids that have the same class "selectSize".

So along with the required you also get other id's. This is the issue ? Your code is written for that purpose, you are iterating over all elements which have class="selectSize" and getting their id's. If you have multiple elements with same class size, you will get the last element's id as your result. — vS12, Oct 19 '19 at 20:15
Please post the actual HTML (not an image) you want to parse. — balderman, Oct 19 '19 at 20:59
@Florian - You can edit your question to include this information. This saves time for everyone, you would not have to comment on each and every post and people can easily debug your code if it is presented properly. — vS12, Oct 19 '19 at 22:00
give the code that produces your issue. The snippit you provided doesn't show "The problem is that it gets the values of other ids that have the same class "selectSize"". Also there is no 'data-size-us' attribute in your example — chitown88, Oct 20 '19 at 08:48

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 19 '19 at 20:51

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I think this is what you want. You won't have ids and size from data in div class='size inactive active'

for sizeBlock in soup.select('div.size a.selectSize'):
    aid = sizeBlock.get('id')
    size = sizeBlock.get('data-size-us')

answered Oct 19 '19 at 20:51

Benoit Drogou

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Just ran the code and it returns `id="44524"` found in `
`. I don't know why.
– Florian Oct 19 '19 at 22:15

lainatnavi · Answer 2 · 2019-10-19T21:12:58.917

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Already answered here How to Beautiful Soup (bs4) match just one, and only one, css class

Use soup.select. Here's a simple test:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html_doc = """<div class="size">
<a class="selectSize otherclass" id="44526" data-ean="0193394075362" " data-tprice="" data-sku="1171177-36.5" data-size-original="36.5">5</a>
</div>"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser')

#for sizeBlock in soup.find_all('a', class_= "selectSize"): # this would include the anchor
for sizeBlock in soup.select("a[class='selectSize']"):
    aid = sizeBlock.get('id')
    size = sizeBlock.get('data-size-original')
    print aid, size

edited Oct 19 '19 at 21:12

answered Oct 19 '19 at 21:02

lainatnavi

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This actaully would include ids and sizes form
too, which I don't need. I only need data from
. I think this happens because of the word "size" in both s. I was thinking of decomposing that element but couldn't get it work. – Florian Oct 19 '19 at 21:10

I want to get the value of multiple ids inside an a tag that resides in a div

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