How to find elements by class

Question

I\'m having trouble parsing HTML elements with \"class\" attribute using Beautifulsoup. The code looks like this

soup = BeautifulSoup(sdata)
mydivs = soup.fi         


        

Answer 1

The following should work

soup.find('span', attrs={'class':'totalcount'})

replace 'totalcount' with your class name and 'span' with tag you are looking for. Also, if your class contains multiple names with space, just choose one and use.

P.S. This finds the first element with given criteria. If you want to find all elements then replace 'find' with 'find_all'.