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Difference Between find() and find_all() in BeautifulSoup

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 6, 2023

The find() and find_all() methods in Python BeautifulSoup library are used for searching and extracting elements from HTML and XML documents. find() returns the first matching element, while find_all() returns a list of all matching elements.

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