A select function similar to soups.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. It’s great to be able to run find and then find within the initial result, but it seems more readable to be able to find based on CSS selectors.

Describe the solution you’d like

selector = '.foo img.bar'
soup.select(selector) # this would return any img item with the class "bar" inside of an object with the class "foo"

[simonw]

I came here to request CSS selector support too - every scraper I’ve written in the past decade has worked using CSS selectors and I honestly can’t imagine scraping without them.

I wrote the first library that added selector support to BeautifulSoup (before it was a built-in feature) - the implementation wasn’t too complicated, you’re welcome to borrow from it if it looks useful: https://github.com/simonw/soupselect

[simonw]

My offer here isn’t for your to depend on soupselect - which is 14 years old and never saw a release on PyPI. It’s for you to copy and paste over the code from that, clean it up and incorporate it into Gazpacho. The key implementation is only 100 lines of Python.