How to use Python and BeautifulSoup to parse classes - html

Question

I am trying to parse only the independent claims off of google.com/patents, but they use the same class name as the children dependent claims. I am new, but I think what I am trying to ask is how do I exclude child results if the parent has a particular class name.
I have tried to work the examples of parent / child / sibling / etc. off of this BeautifulSoup tutorial.
Unfortunately, nothing seemed to work.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
url = 'https://patents.google.com/patent/US7054130?oq=US7654309'
response = requests.get(url)
data = response.text
soup = BeautifulSoup(data, 'html.parser')
claims = soup.find_all('div', class_='claim')
for claim in claims:
if claim.find(class_='claim-dependent style-scope patent-text'):
continue
print(claim.text)
I expected the dependent claim sections to be skipped and only the independent claims printed.
Results - All the claims, independent and dependent, gets printed.

Answer 1

Your if statement does not do anything, because it contains just continue (and the result is empty by the way), so you are printing all claims in the next line.
You could filter all the claims with the dependent claim-ref tag:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
url = 'https://patents.google.com/patent/US7054130?oq=US7654309'
response = requests.get(url)
data = response.text
soup = BeautifulSoup(data, 'html.parser')
claims = soup.find_all('div', class_='claim')
for claim in claims:
if not claim.find('claim-ref'):
print(claim.find(class_='claim'))

Answer 2

Simply filter on parent and child classes I think as this excludes claims with parent class of claim-dependent which I assume are the dependants.
print(soup.select('.claim .claim')
3 matches (claims 1,6,19)
You can see one of each type here:
This is for claims 1 and 2. The top, claim 1, has parent div with class claim and child with class claim, whereas the bottom, claim 2, has parent div with class claim-dependant, then child with class claim. So you specify that relationship of parent class and child class to filter.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
url = 'https://patents.google.com/patent/US7054130?oq=US7654309'
response = requests.get(url)
data = response.text
soup = BeautifulSoup(data, 'html.parser')
data = [claim.text for claim in soup.select('.claim .claim')]
print(data)