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 by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) Oct 26, 2022 1 min read [\#beautifulsoup](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/beautifulsoup) [\#data-parsing](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/data-parsing) 

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When web scraping, sometimes the values we want are located between two known HTML elements. To extract them we can use `find_all()` and `find_next_siblings()` methods:

python```python
import bs4
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup("""
<h2>heading 1</h2>
<p>paragraph 1</p>
<p>paragraph 2</p>
<h2>heading 2</h2>
<p>paragraph 3</p>
<p>paragraph 4</p>
""")

blocks = {}
for heading in soup.find_all("h2"):  # find separators, in this case h2 nodes
    values = []
    for sibling in heading.find_next_siblings():
        if sibling.name == "h2":  # iterate through siblings until separator is encoutnered
            break
        values.append(sibling.text)
    blocks[heading.text] = values

print(blocks)
{
  'heading 1': ['paragraph 1', 'paragraph 2'], 
  'heading 2': ['paragraph 3', 'paragraph 4']
}
```





 

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