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Leveraging next_sibling in BeautifulSoup for Web Scraping

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 6, 2023

When scraping web pages, BeautifulSoup provides an easy way to extract the next element following a current tag using the .next_sibling attribute. It is useful for getting text after a heading, looping through table rows, and extracting field labels and values.

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