selecting second child in beautiful soup

Question

Let's say I have the following HTML:

<div>
    <p>this is some text</p>
    <p>...and this is some other text</p>
</div>

How can I retrieve the text from the second paragraph using BeautifulSoup?

Answer 1

You can use a CSS selector to do this:

>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

>>>  soup = BeautifulSoup("""<div>
.... <p>this is some text</p>
.... <p>...and this is some other text</p>
.... </div>""", "html.parser")

>>>  soup.select('div > p')[1].get_text(strip=True)
     '...and this is some other text'

Answer 2

You can use nth-of-type:

h = """<div>
    <p>this is some text</p>
    <p>...and this is some other text</p>
</div>"""


soup = BeautifulSoup(h)

print(soup.select_one("div p:nth-of-type(2)").text)