Select element based on text inside Beautiful Soup

Question

I scrapped a website and I want to find an element based on the text written in it. Let's say below is the sample code of the website:

code = bs4.BeautifulSoup("""<div>
<h1>Some information</h1>
<p>Spam</p>
<p>Some Information</p>
<p>More Spam</p>
</div>""")

I want some way to get a p element that has as a text value Some Information . How can I select an element like so?

Answer 1

Just use text parameter:

code.find_all("p", text="Some Information")

If you need only the first element than use find instead of find_all .

Answer 2

You could use text to search all tags matching the string

import BeautifulSoup as bs
import re
code = bs.BeautifulSoup("""<div>
<h1>Some information</h1>
<p>Spam</p>
<p>Some Information</p>
<p>More Spam</p>
</div>""")


for elem in code(text='Some Information'):
    print elem.parent