How do I get values out of a div with beautifulsoup in Python?

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I'm trying to get the value "test" out of "data" by using Beautifulsoup. Is this possible with dictionary keys and values like below?

<div class="cell" data="test">

What I have tried:

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import requests
import bs4

result = requests.get("url")

if result.status_code == 200:
    soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(result.text,"lxml")
    print(soup.find_all("div", {'class':'cell'}['data']))

Posted 5-Jan-22 1:21am

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Updated 5-Jan-22 23:55pm

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Richard MacCutchan 5-Jan-22 8:29am

What happens when you run the code?

Member 13554627 5-Jan-22 8:34am

Error:
print(soup.find_all("div", {'class':'cell'}['data']))
KeyError: 'data'

then I will get a keyError.

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2022-01-05T04:23:00

The find_all function returns a collection of objects, so you need to iterate the collection before you can use an index. Something like:

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divs = soup.find_all("div", {'class':'cell'})
for div in divs:
    print(div['data'])

Or, if you are certain that the first one in the list is the one you want then:

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print(soup.find_all("div", {'class':'cell'})[0]['data'])

How do I get values out of a div with beautifulsoup in Python?

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