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I have such HTML code:

<li class="IDENTIFIER"><h5 class="hidden">IDENTIFIER</h5><p>
<span class="tooltip-iws" data-toggle="popover" data-content="SOME TEXT">
other text</span></p></li>

And I'd like to obtain the SOME TEXT from the data-content.

I wrote

target = soup.find('span', {'class' : 'tooltip-iws'})['data-content']

to get the span, and I wrote

identifier_elt= soup.find("li", {'class': 'IDENTIFIER'})

to get the class, but I'm not sure how to combine the two.

But the class tooltip-iws is not unique, and I would get extraneous results if I just used that (there are other spans, before the code snippet, with the same class) That's why I want to specify my search within the class IDENTIFIER. How can I do that in BeautifulSoup?

AndW
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try using css selector,

soup.select_one("li[class='IDENTIFIER'] > p > span")['data-content']
sushanth
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Try using selectorlib, should solve your issue, comment if you need further assistance

https://selectorlib.com/

Bibin Varghses
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