BeautifulSoup Tips
Two BeautifulSoup tricks: find elements that match any of several classes, and find elements using a regex on their classes.
Snell Rojas
I wrote this post in Spanish in 2022 and adapted it to English in 2026.
Find elements by several classes:
Python
soup.findAll(True, {'class':['class1', 'class2']})
# example:
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup('<html><body><div class="class1"></div><div class="class2"></div><div class="class3"></div></body></html>')
>>> soup.findAll(True, {"class":["class1", "class2"]})
[<div class="class1"></div>, <div class="class2"></div>]
Find elements using a regex for the classes:
Python
soup.find_all("td", class_=re.compile("cell_ab team-home | cell_ab team-home bold"))
