Extract divs with at least one class in BeautifulSoup

Question

Supose you have a web page with a lot of this:

<div class="story cid-8797378263432 l-es headline-story thumbnail-true">

where cid-nnnnnnnnnnnn class can vary. How would you get all the divs with BeautifulSoup?

I tried:

soup.find('div', {'class': 'story'})

but that didn't work. Seems to look for the divs with ONLY the story class.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1242755/beautiful-soup-cannot-find-a-css-class-if-the-object-has-other-classes-too/1242801#1242801 — endolith, Nov 30 '11 at 15:12

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 26 '11 at 04:10

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Or you can just use soup.findAll('div', 'story') which doesn't seem to have that bug.

answered Nov 26 '11 at 04:10

Brandon O'Rourke

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 20 '10 at 18:26

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It's a bug: Launchpad bug report. The report also contains a workaround:

soup.findAll('div', {'class': re.compile(r'\bstory\b')})

answered Feb 20 '10 at 18:26

Boldewyn

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