From this HTML code:
<p class="description" dir="ltr">Name is a fine man. <br></p>
I'm looking for replacing "Name" using the following code:
target = soup.find_all(text="Name")
for v in target:
v.replace_with('Id')
The output I would like to have is:
<p class="description" dir="ltr">Id is a fine man. <br></p>
When I:
print target
[]
Why doesn't it find the "Name"?
Thanks!
The text node in your HTML contains some other text besides "Name". In this case, you need to relax search criteria to use contains instead of exact match, for example, by using regex. Then you can replace matched text nodes with the original text except for "Name" part should be replaced with "Id" by using simple string.replace() method, for example :
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re
html = """<p class="description" dir="ltr">Name is a fine man. <br></p>"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
target = soup.find_all(text=re.compile(r'Name'))
for v in target:
v.replace_with(v.replace('Name','Id'))
print soup
output :
<html><body><p class="description" dir="ltr">Id is a fine man. <br/></p></body></html>
It returns an empty list because searching for text like this must match the whole text in a tag, so use regular expression instead.
From the official docs: BeautifulSoup - Search text
text is an argument that lets you search for NavigableString objects instead of Tags. Its value can be a string, a regular expression, a list or dictionary, True or None, or a callable that takes a NavigableString object as its argument:
soup.findAll(text="one")
# [u'one']
soup.findAll(t ext=re.compile("paragraph"))
# [u'This is paragraph ', u'This is paragraph ']
soup.findAll(text=lambda(x): len(x) < 12)
# [u'Page title', u'one', u'.', u'two', u'.']
str.replace(), Are you sure you have some text that matches it?Name. Show your HTML, and what you intend to do.soupfind anytext='Name'? Also is there any code in betweenreplace_withandprint target?soupdid not findtext='Name'and there is no code in between,