Beautiful Soup and extracting a div and its contents by ID

Question

soup.find(\"tagName\", { \"id\" : \"articlebody\" })

Why does this NOT return the

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tags

Answer 1

In the beautifulsoup source this line allows divs to be nested within divs; so your concern in lukas' comment wouldn't be valid.

NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS = ['blockquote', 'div', 'fieldset', 'ins', 'del']

What I think you need to do is to specify the attrs you want such as

source.find('div', attrs={'id':'articlebody'})