[FIXED] how to extract the texts after the first h1 Tag?

Issue

i'm trying to write a code to get and clean the text from 100 websites per day. i came across an issue with one website that has More than one h1 tag and when you scroll to the next h1 tag the URL on the website changes for example this website.

what i have is basically this.

response=requests.get('https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/business/volkswagen-sets-5-7-revenue-growth-target-preaches-cost-discipline/articleshow/101168014.cms',headers={"User-Agent" : "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36"})      
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')
 if len(soup.body.find_all('h1'))>2:    #to check if there is more than one tag      
    if i.endswith(".cms"):              #to check if the website has .cms ending (i have my doubts on this part)
      for elem in soup.next_siblings:
        if elem.name == 'h1':
           GET THE TEXT SOME HOW
          
        break

How can i get the text after first h1 tag? (please note that the text is in tag and not in

tag.

Solution

You had the right idea in trying to use .next_siblings, but you should keep in mind that soup.next_siblings is unlikely to generate anything as the document itself is generally not expected to have any siblings.

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The following code finds the first header and then [if it doesn't have any siblings], searches up the its parents to find the nearest one with siblings and then goes through the siblings but stops if another h1 tag is reached.

# list_of_urls = ['https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...
# for url in list_of_urls:
    # response = requests.get(url,.....
    # soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')

    header1 = soup.find('h1')
    if not header1:
        print(f'[{response.status_code} {response.reason}] No headers at', url)
        continue
    
    if header1.next_sibling: hSibs = header1.next_siblings
    else:
        hParent = next((p for p in header1.parents if p.next_sibling), None)
        hSibs = hParent.next_siblings if hParent else []
    
    h1Sibs = []
    for ns in hSibs:
        if ns.name == 'h1' or (not isinstance(ns,str) and ns.find('h1')): break
        h1Sibs.append(ns)
    h1Sibs_text = '\n---\n'.join(ns.get_text(' ') for ns in h1Sibs)

for the site in your example, print(h1Sibs_text) should print

SECTIONS Volkswagen sets 5-7% revenue growth target, preaches cost discipline Reuters Last Updated: Jun 21, 2023, 07:16 PM IST Rate Story Share Font Size Abc Small Abc Medium Abc Large Save Print Comment
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Synopsis The German carmaker has set "performance programmes" for each brand, allocating them capital and setting a specific return on sales target, but delegating responsibility to the brands for how those targets are reached, executives said in a press call on its Capital Markets Day. "If you look at how Volkswagen operated in the past, often we had a fixed cost growth and we wanted to outgrow that fixed cost," Chief Financial Officer Arno Antlitz said. Agencies Volkswagen sets 5-7% revenue growth target, preaches cost discipline Volkswagen  set new financial targets on Wednesday of 5-7% annual  revenue  growth by 2027 and 9-11% returns by 2030, aiming to stay disciplined on investment and focus on boosting margins in the face of growing competition for market share.  The German carmaker has set "performance programmes" for each brand, allocating them  capital  and setting a specific return on sales target, but delegating responsibility to the  brands  for how those targets are reached, executives said in a press call on its  Capital Markets Day .  "If you look at how Volkswagen operated in the past, often we had a fixed cost growth and we wanted to outgrow that fixed cost," Chief Financial Officer  Arno Antlitz  said.  "We are convinced in the transformation we need to change that strategy to our value over volume approach, be very disciplined on fixed cost, be very disciplined on investment and rather focus on value," he added.  In  China , where internal combustion engine sales still provide high revenues for the carmaker, it has slightly reduced its target for battery-electric vehicle sales in the next 1-2 years and is instead focused on protecting margins,  Antlitz  said.  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Note that you don't have to use '\n---\n' to join the siblings' text - you can use any string as separator.

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Btw, for that specific site's articles, a much simpler way would be to target the header tag specifically by its class,

    if url.startswith('https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/'): ## might need more
        h1Sibs = soup.select('*:has(>h1.artTitle)~*') 
        h1Sibs_text = '\n---\n'.join(ns.get_text(' ') for ns in h1Sibs)

^{NOTE: using select with the *:has(>h1.artTitle)~* selector is similar to using soup.find('h1',class_='artTitle').parent.next_siblings, but is safer than chaining find,parent,next_siblings as it will simply return an empty list instead of raising any errors if h1.artTitle is not found.}

If you are scraping many different links, but you know the sites for most of them, you might want to break if up into if...elif... blocks for each site (or even groups of sites) and only use something generic like my first snippet for unlisted sites in the else block. You might even consider using something like this configurable parser with sets of selectors for each site.

Answered By - Driftr95