How do I use soup.find_all() and soup.find() in BeautifulSoup?

soup.find_all() returns a list of every matching element. soup.find() returns only the first match, or None if nothing matches. Pass a tag name and a class_ argument (with the underscore, because class is a reserved word in Python) to filter what you want.

products = soup.find_all('div', class_='product')

for p in products:
    print(p.get_text(strip=True))

find_all() always returns a ResultSet (behaves like a list). If nothing matches, you get [], not None, so iterating is always safe. Add limit=N to cap the number of results.

Use find() when you expect exactly one element, like a page title or a unique container.

title = soup.find('h1')

if title:
    print(title.get_text(strip=True))

Always check for None after find(). Calling .get_text() or .find() on a missing tag raises AttributeError, which is the most common BeautifulSoup bug in production scrapers.