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 by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) Oct 31, 2022 1 min read [\#css-selectors](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/css-selectors) [\#python](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/python) 

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Python has several popular packages that can parse HTML using CSS selectors.
The most popular one is BeautifulSoup which can execute CSS selectors through the `select()` and `select_one()` methods:

python```python
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup("""
<a>link 1</a>
<a>link 2</a>
""")

print(soup.select_one('a'))
"<a>link 1</a>"
print(soup.select('a'))
["<a>link 1</a>", "<a>link 2</a>"]
```



Another popular package is [parsel](https://pypi.org/project/parsel/) (also used by [scrapy](https://pypi.org/project/Scrapy/)) which can execute CSS selectors through the `css()` method:

python```python
from parsel import Selector

soup = Selector("""
<a>link 1</a>
<a>link 2</a>
""")

print(soup.css('a').get())
"<a>link 1</a>"
print(soup.css('a').getall())
["<a>link 1</a>", "<a>link 2</a>"]
```





 

    



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