Hands-On Web Scraping with Python

Using CSS Selectors

We have used plenty of properties and functions in the preceding sections, looking for desired elements and their content. Beautiful Soup also supports CSS Selectors (with library SoupSieve at https://facelessuser.github.io/soupsieve/selectors/), which enhances its use and allows developers to write effective and efficient codes to traverse the parsed tree.

CSS Selectors (CSS query or CSS Selector query) are defined patterns used by CSS to select HTML elements, by element name or by using global attributes (ID, Class). For more information on CSS Selectors, please refer to Chapter 3, Using LXML, XPath and CSS Selectors, Introduction to XPath and CSS Selector section.

For Beautiful Soup, the select() function is used ...