Haven’t used BS4 or python for awhile, but If I remember correctly something like this should work on getting all elements with data_stat and school_name in the data.

results = soup.findAll("td", {"data_stat" : "school_name"}) 

Or if you want all results in data with the data_stat attribute and the value doesn’t matter use –

results = soup.findAll("td", {"data_stat" : True})

You have a couple of options:

1. You can use soup.find_all and loop through your results.
2. Use the css selector for first.
3. Inspect and copy the selector for that element.

I am parsing a webpage using bs4. There are more then one data type I would like to select, with the same class name.

My parsing code:

rows_ranking = soup_ranking.select('#current-poll tbody tr .left')

The page I want to parse has two different “.left” identifiers in the table rows. How can I choose which one I would like. Here is an exmample of two of these table rows (one I would like my program to parse, the other I would like to ignore)

1 – <td class="left " data-stat="school_name" csk="Baylor.015"><a href="/cbb/schools/baylor/2020.html">Baylor</a></td>

2 – <td class="left " data-stat="conf_abbr" csk="Big 12 Conference.015.001"><a href="/cbb/conferences/big-12/2020.html" title="Big 12 Conference">Big 12</a></td>

As you can see they have the same class identifier. Is there a way I can have bs4 look only for the first of the two?

I hope my question makes sense, thanks in advance!