Beautiful Soup Parse Python

Question

I've captured the following html using BS4 , but can't seem to search for the artist tag. I've assigned this block of code to a variable called container , and then tried

print container.tr.td["artist"]

without luck. Any advice appreciated?

<tr class="item">
  <!-- <td class="image"><a href="https://www.stargreen.com/kool-as-the-gang-44415.html" title="KOOL AS THE GANG " class="product-image"><img src="https://www.stargreen.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/small_image/135x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/K/o/KoolAsTheGang.jpg" width="135" height="135" alt="KOOL AS THE GANG " /></a></td> -->
  <td class="date">Sat, 30 Dec 2017</td>
  <td class="artist">kool as the gang</td>
  <td class="venue">100 club</td>
  <td class="link">
  <p class="availability out-of-stock">
    <span>Off Sale</span></p>
  </td>
</tr>

Answer 1

Your syntax is wrong, "artist" is the value of the "class" attribute try this:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html = """
<tr class="item">
<!-- <td class="image"><a href="https://www.stargreen.com/kool-as-the-gang-44415.html" title="KOOL AS THE GANG " class="product-image"><img src="https://www.stargreen.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/small_image/135x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/K/o/KoolAsTheGang.jpg" width="135" height="135" alt="KOOL AS THE GANG " /></a></td> -->
<td class="date">Sat, 30 Dec 2017</td>
<td class="artist">
                        kool as the gang                     </td>
<td class="venue">100 club</td>
<td class="link">
<p class="availability out-of-stock">
<span>Off Sale</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
td = soup.find('td',{'class': 'artist'})
print (td.text.strip())

Outputs:

kool as the gang

Answer 2

Another way.

Look for the element within container whose class is 'artist' with the select method. Since there could be more than one, but you know there is only one, select the only element in the list, and request its text attribute.

>>> HTML = open('sven.htm').read()
>>> import bs4
>>> container = bs4.BeautifulSoup(HTML, 'lxml')
>>> container.select('.artist')[0].text
'\n                        kool as the gang                     '