Using CSS selectors in BeautifulSoup

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BeautifulSoup has a limited support for CSS selectors, but covers most commonly used ones. Use select() method to find multiple elements and select_one() to find a single element.

Basic example:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

data = """
<ul>
    <li class="item">item1</li>
    <li class="item">item2</li>
    <li class="item">item3</li>
</ul>
"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(data, "html.parser")

for item in soup.select("li.item"):
    print(item.get_text())

Prints:

item1
item2
item3

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