Get text on html element based on different one

Question

So I have something like this

<tr>
  <td class="name">
     qwer
  </td>
  <td class="value">
     rtyu
  </td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td class="name">
     asdf
  </td>
  <td class="value">
     zxcv
  </td>
</tr>

Looking for a method to get value element text (zxcv) if name element contains an entry of text (asdf)

did you try to write any code? – Aven Desta Feb 09 '21 at 15:53 — Aven Desta, Feb 09 '21 at 15:53

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 09 '21 at 16:02

You can you beautifulsoup, and create a list of all <tr> then iterate over each one and check if the text in <td class="name"> is asdf, if true we then get the text inside <td class="value">.

In code:

import bs4 as bs

html= """<tr>
  <td class="name">
     qwer
  </td>
  <td class="value">
     rtyu
  </td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td class="name">
     asdf
  </td>
  <td class="value">
     zxcv
  </td>
</tr>"""

soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(html,'lxml')
trs = soup.findAll("tr")

for tr in trs:
    td_name=tr.find("td", {"class": "name"})
    if(td_name.text.strip() == "asdf"):
        td_value=tr.find("td", {"class": "value"})
        print(td_value.text.strip())

Hmm, seems like it, but do you have an answer for lxml's tree? — Hotkuk, Feb 10 '21 at 08:12

Get text on html element based on different one

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