Use Beautifulsoup To Get A Value After A Specific Tag

I'm having a very hard time getting BeautifulSoup to scrape some data for me. What's the best way to access the date (the actual numbers, 2008) from this code sample? It's my first

Solution 1:

Find the dt tag by text and find the next dd sibling:

soup.find('div', class_='detail_date').find('dt', text='Date').find_next_sibling('dd').text

The complete code:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

data = """
<div class='dl_item_container clearfix detail_date'>
    <dt>Date</dt>
    <dd>
    2008
    </dd>
</div>
"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(data, 'html.parser')
date_field = soup.find('div', class_='detail_date').find('dt', text='Date')
print(date_field.find_next_sibling('dd').text.strip())

Prints 2008.