Beautifulsoup - nextSibling

Last Updated : 16 Mar, 2021

The nextSibling property is used to return the next node of the specified node as Node object or null if the specified node is the last one in the list. It is a read-only property. In this article, we will find the next sibling(s) of a given tag that satisfies the given criteria and appears after this tag in the document.

Examples:

HTML_DOC :

"""

<html>

<head>

<title> Find Next Siblings </title>

</head>

<body>

1957: FORTRAN

1972: C

1983: C++

1991: Python

1993: Ruby

1995: Java

1995: PHP

1995: JavaScript

</body>

</html>

"""

element : 1957: FORTRAN

Output :

1972: C

1983: C++

1991: Python

1993: Ruby

1995: Java

1995: PHP

1995: JavaScript

Required Modules:

BeautifulSoup (bs4): It is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. This module does not come built-in with Python. Run the following command in the terminal to install this library-

pip install bs4
or
pip install beautifulsoup4

Finding Next Siblings:

find_next_siblings() function is used to find all the next siblings of a tag / element.

It returns all the next siblings that match.

Find Next Sibling:

find_next_sibling() function is used to find the succeeding sibling of a tag/element.

It only returns the first match next to the tag/element.

Example 1: Finding all the next siblings of a tag/element

Python3

# Import Module
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# HTML Document
HTML_DOC = """
              <html>
               <head>
                   <title> Find Next Siblings </title>
               </head>
               <body>
                    <p class = "languages">1957: FORTRAN</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1972: C</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1983: C++</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1991: Python</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1993: Ruby</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1995: Java</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1995: PHP</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1995: JavaScript</p>

               </body>
             </html>
            """

# Function to find all the next siblings
def findNextSiblings(html):

    # parse html content
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")

    element = soup.p

    # Extracting all the next siblings of an element
    nextSiblings = element.find_next_siblings("p")

    # Printing all the next siblings
    for nextSibling in nextSiblings:
        print(nextSibling)


# Function Call
findNextSiblings(HTML_DOC)

Output:

Example 2: Finding the next sibling of a tag/element

Python3

# Import Module
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# HTML Document
HTML_DOC = """
              <html>
               <head>
                   <title> Find Next Sibling </title>
               </head>
               <body>
                    <p class = "languages">1957: FORTRAN</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1972: C</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1983: C++</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1991: Python</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1993: Ruby</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1995: Java</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1995: PHP</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1995: JavaScript</p>

               </body>
             </html>
            """

# Function to find the next sibling
def findNextSibling(html):

    # parse html content
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")

    element = soup.p

    # Extracting the next sibling of an element
    nextSibling = element.find_next_sibling("p")

    # Printing next sibling of an element
    print(nextSibling)


# Function Call
findNextSibling(HTML_DOC)

Output:

Example 3: Finding the next sibling of Parent Tag (In the case of nested structure)

Python3

# Import Module
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# HTML Document
HTML_DOC = """
              <html>
               <head>
                   <title> Find Next Sibling Of Parent </title>
               </head>
               <body>
                    <div class = "languages">
                        
<p>1957: FORTRAN</p>

                    </div>
                    <div class = "languages">1995: PHP</div>
                    <div class = "languages">1995: JavaScript</div>
               </body>
             </html>
            """

# Function to find the next sibling
def findNextSibling(html):

    # parse html content
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")

    element = soup.p

    # Parent tag of the element
    parent_tag = element.parent

    # Extracting the next sibling of parent
    nextSibling = parent_tag.find_next_sibling("div")

    # Printing next sibling of parent
    print(nextSibling)


# Function Call
findNextSibling(HTML_DOC)

Output:

Example 4: Finding a specified number of next siblings.

For example, finding only the next 3 siblings of an element.
This can be done by using the limit argument

Python3

# Import Module
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# HTML Document
HTML_DOC = """
              <html>
               <head>
                   <title> Find Next 3 Siblings </title>
               </head>
               <body>
                    <p class = "languages">1957: FORTRAN</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1972: C</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1983: C++</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1991: Python</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1993: Ruby</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1995: Java</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1995: PHP</p>

                    <p class = "languages">1995: JavaScript</p>

               </body>
             </html>
            """

# Function to find 3 next siblings
def findNextSiblings(html):

    # parse html content
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")

    element = soup.p

    # Extracting the next 3 siblings of an element
    nextSiblings = element.find_next_siblings("p", limit=3)

    # Printing the next 3 siblings
    for nextSibling in nextSiblings:
        print(nextSibling)


# Function Call
findNextSiblings(HTML_DOC)

Output:

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