Scrape tables from dropdown list

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I am trying to scrape all tables from Area dropdown list from this website Data Tables | U.S. Drought Monitor[^].I am new to scrapping and has no clue how approach this problem. Can someone please guide me.
Thank you

What I have tried:

import requests
import re

url = 'https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/DmData/DataTables.aspx'
response = requests.get(url)

soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text,'lxml')

items = soup.find_all('select',class_='form-select')

print(items)

Posted 6-Jun-23 8:09am

aqsa sadaf

Updated 6-Jun-23 9:15am

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2023-06-06T09:15:00

Solution 1

This is what you need: beautiful soup python example - Google Search[^]

Posted 6-Jun-23 9:15am

Richard MacCutchan