python - How can I get a specific link using BeautifulSoup

Question

I'm trying to get the specific link from this

<a href="/doi/10.1021/ed500712k" title="Next" class="header_contnav-next">
            <i class="icon-angle-right"></i>
        </a>

I'm only able to find all the links within the page and it would be helpful to extract this specific one.

Thank you !

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65888919/how-can-i-get-a-specific-link-using-beautifulsoup

Answer 1

I presume you're using .find_all() function to get links, to find a specific item, you should use .find() function instead of that. If you're sure that only this one has the "class" variable set to "header_contnav-next", then all you need to do is to specify it in dictionary format:

soup.find("a", {"class": "header_contnav-next"})['href']