Find the Nth Tag On a WebPage with Beautiful Soup

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In this example we get the first h2 tag from a wikipedia page using Beautiful Soup. To do this we first find all the h2 tags as a list called h2_tags and then simply get the tags in the first position of the list.

 1|  import requests
 2|  from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 3|  
 4|  response = requests.get('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTSE_100_Index')
 5|  parser = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')
 6|  
 7|  h2_tags = parser.find_all('h2')
 8|  
 9|  # get the first h2 tag
10|  print(h2_tags[0])

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