Use of previous element function in beautiful soup
This recipe explains the use of the previous element function. This function returns the element which was parsed immediately before the element.
Recipe Objective - Use of ".previous_element" function in beautiful soup?
The .previous_element function is provided by the beautiful soup (bs4) library to get the previous tag/element of the given element.
Beautiful Soup (bs4) is the web scraping python library for pulling the data from web pages, HTML, and XML documents.
The ".previous_element" function is the exact opposite of ".next_element".
It points to whatever element was parsed immediately before the given tag/element.
Steps to use the ".previous_element" function:-
- Import necessary modules.
- Load an HTML document.
- Pass the HTML document into the Beautifulsoup() function.
- Find any tag or element in the document or HTML.
- Use .previous_element iterator to print the previous element.
Table of Contents
Links for the more related projects:-
https://www.projectpro.io/projects/data-science-projects/deep-learning-projects
https://www.projectpro.io/projects/data-science-projects/neural-network-projects
Example:-
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
# load the projectpro webpage content
r = requests.get('https://www.projectpro.io/')
# convert to beautiful soup
soup = bs(r.content)
# printing our web page
print(soup.prettify())
soup.title.next_sibling
.previous_element function:-
soup.title.next_element.previous_element
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