I have a simple 4x2 html table that contains information about a property.
I'm trying to extract the value 1972, which is under the column heading of Year Built. If I find all the tags td, how do I extract the index of the tag that contains the text Year Built?
Because once I find that index, I can just add 4 to get to the tag that contains the value 1972.
Here is the html:
Building | Type | Year Built | Sq. Ft. |
R01 | DWELL | 1972 | 1166 |
For example I know that if my input is index 2 and my output is text of that tag Year Built, I can just do this:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(myhtml)
td_list = soup.find_all('td')
print td_list[2].text
But how do I use input of text Year Built to get output of index 2?
解决方案
If your table has a static scheme, it is better using row and column indexes. Try this:
rows = soup.find("table").find("tbody").find_all("tr")
print rows[1].find_all("td")[2].get_text()
Alternatively if you just want to find index number of the tag containing "Year Built":
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(myhtml)
td_list = soup.find_all('td')
i = 0
for elem in td_list:
if elem.text == 'Year Built':
ind = i
i += 1
print td_list[ind].text