I am struggling with the syntax required to grab some hrefs in a <td>

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Asked: May 11, 20262026-05-11T22:09:09+00:00 2026-05-11T22:09:09+00:00

I am struggling with the syntax required to grab some hrefs in a <td>.
The <table>, <tr> and <td> elements don’t have any classes or ids.

If I wanted to grab the anchor in this example, what would I need?

<tr>
    <td><a>...

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-11T22:09:09+00:00

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As per the docs, you first make a parse tree:

import BeautifulSoup
html = "<html><body><tr><td><a href='foo'/></td></tr></body></html>"
soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(html)

and then you search in it, for example for <a> tags whose immediate parent is a <td>:

for ana in soup.findAll('a'):
  if ana.parent.name == 'td':
    print ana["href"]

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