Use of previous elements function in beautiful soup
This recipe helps to understand the use of previous elements iterator. You can use these iterators to move forward or backward in the document.
Recipe Objective - Use of ".previous_elements" function in beautiful soup?
Requirement - BeautifulSoup (bs4)
Beautiful Soup (bs4) is the web scraping python library for pulling the data from web pages, HTML, and XML documents.
The .previous_elements() iterator is also quite the similar version of .previous_siblings() function. But You can use these iterators to move forward or backward in the document as it was parsed.
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Steps to use this iterator:-
- Import necessary modules.
- Load an HTML document.
- Pass the HTML document into the Beautifulsoup() function.
- Use .previous_elements() iterator to print the required elements.
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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())
for element in soup.title.next_elements:
print(repr(element))
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