pythonhtmlbeautifulsoupfilter

How to find all <a href> with a specific anchor text using BeautifulSoup

I am trying to use beautiful soup to parse html and find all href with a specific anchor tag

<a href="http://example.com">TEXT</a>
<a href="http://example.com/link">TEXT</a>
<a href="http://example.com/page">TEXT</a>

all the links I am looking for have the exact same anchor text, in this case TEXT. I am NOT looking for the word TEXT, I want to use the word TEXT to find all the different HREF.

For clarification looking for something similar to using the class to parse for the links

<a href="http://example.com" class="visible">TEXT</a>
<a href="http://example.com/link" class="visible">TEXT</a>
<a href="http://example.com/page" class="visible">TEXT</a>

and then using

findAll('a', 'visible')

except the HTML I am parsing doesn't have a class but always the same anchor text.

Solution

  • Would something like this work?

    In [39]: from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

In [40]: s = """\
   ....: <a href="http://example.com">TEXT</a>
   ....: <a href="http://example.com/link">TEXT</a>
   ....: <a href="http://example.com/page">TEXT</a>
   ....: <a href="http://dontmatchme.com/page">WRONGTEXT</a>"""

In [41]: soup = BeautifulSoup(s)

In [42]: for link in soup.findAll('a', href=True, text='TEXT'):
   ....:     print link['href']
   ....:
   ....:
http://example.com
http://example.com/link
http://example.com/page