I'm trying to get the content "My home address" using the following but got the AttributeError:
address = soup.find(text="Address:")
print address.nextSibling
This is my HTML:
<td><b>Address:</b></td>
<td>My home address</td>
What is a good way to navigate down td tag and pull the content?
The problem is that you have found a NavigableString, not the <td>. Also nextSibling will find the next NavigableString or Tag so even if you had the <td> it wouldn't work the way you expect.
This is what you want:
address = soup.find(text="Address:")
b_tag = address.parent
td_tag = b_tag.parent
next_td_tag = td_tag.findNext('td')
print next_td_tag.contents[0]
Or more concise:
print soup.find(text="Address:").parent.parent.findNext('td').contents[0]
Actually you could just do
print soup.find(text="Address:").findNext('td').contents[0]
Since findNext just calls next over and over again, and next finds the next element as parsed repeatedly until it matches.
Try this if you use bs4:
print soup.find(string="Address:").find_next('td').contents[0]
I don't know if this was possible in 2011 but in 2021 I'd recommend you to do it using find_next_sibling() like this:
address = soup.find(text="Address:")
b = address.parent
address_td = b.parent
target_td = address_td.find_next_sibling('td')
The accepted answer works in your case but it would not work if you had something like:
<div>
<div><b>Address:</b><div>THE PROBLEM</div></div>
<div>target</div>
</div>
You'd end up with <div>THE PROBLEM</div> instead of <div>target</div>.
You can use findChildren pretty easily to iterate over the td's in a table, assuming it's in a table. You could find the table first, ideally:
table = soup.find('table')
>>> for td in table.findChildren('td'):
...: print td.text
...:
...:
Address:
My home address
Or you could search for address, and get the table container:
>>> import re
>>> search = re.compile('Address')
>>> table = soup.find(text=search).parent.parent.parent
