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How To Use BeautifulSoup's find_all() Method

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 6, 2023

The find_all() method in BeautifulSoup is used to find all tags or strings matching a given criteria in an HTML/XML document. It returns a list of all matching tags and strings. It can search by string, regex, or function. It can also search within a specific tag and filter matches by attribute values. Mastering find_all() is key to effective web scraping with BeautifulSoup.

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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