import bs4 as bs
import urllib.request
import re

url = 'https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/174/poker-goals-amp-challenges/d7s-2013-pgc-100k-moving-up-1295523/'

sauce = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()
soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(sauce, 'lxml')

##posts = []
##for post in soup.find_all('table', id=re.compile("post")):
##    posts.append(post.name)
##print(posts)
#### This returns a list of all the tables that are posts

##for url in soup.find_all('a', href=re.compile("230247")):
##    print(url.get('href'))
#### This finds all links that correspond to my user and prints the URLs

##my_urls = soup.find('a', href=re.compile("230247"))
##
##for parent in my_urls.parents:
##    if parent is None:
##        print(parent)
##    else:
##        print(parent.name)
#### This prints the navigation path from a relevent a tags up (doesn't work with find_all, all types are bs4.element)

import bs4 as bs
import urllib.request
import re

url = 'https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/174/poker-goals-amp-challenges/d7s-2013-pgc-100k-moving-up-1295523/'

sauce = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()
soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(sauce, 'lxml')


all_my_urls = soup.find('a', href=re.compile("230247"))
for parent in all_my_urls.parents:
    if parent.name == 'table':
        post_link = parent.find('a', href=re.compile("post"))
        break

print(post_link.get('href'))

36956233
36962774
36972076
36994108
37115053

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


url = "https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/174/poker-goals-amp-challenges/d7s-2013-pgc-100k-moving-up-1295523/"
user_id = "230247"
r = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, "html.parser")

myPosts = []

for user in soup.find_all("a", {"class" : "bigusername"}):
    if user_id in user["href"]:
        myPosts.append(user.parent["id"].split("_")[-1])

for post in myPosts:
    print(post)

<div id="postmenu_xxxxxxxx">

import this

import bs4 as bs
import urllib.request
import re


urls = [
    'https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/174/poker-goals-amp-challenges/d7s-2013-pgc-100k-moving-up-1295523/',
    'https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/174/poker-goals-amp-challenges/200k-2014-crushing-msnl-1428843/',
    'https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/174/poker-goals-amp-challenges/d7s-2018-pgc-back-1702907/'
]
#the urls to be scraped (not yet setup to loop through them, has to run on 1 thread at a time)

userId = '230247'
#OP's user number, could also read this from html


url = urls[0]

sauce = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()
soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(sauce, 'lxml')
#sets up the beautifulsoup

############################################

a_list = []
menu_tds = soup.find_all('td', {"class": "vbmenu_control"})
substring = 'Page'

for td in menu_tds:
    if substring in td.text:
        a_list.append(td.text.split()[-1])
        break

length = int(a_list.pop())
##this finds the length of the thread (for the program, which is not logged in)

##########################################

my_posts = []

my_urls = soup.find_all('a', {"class": "bigusername"}, href=re.compile(userId))

for item in my_urls:
    my_posts.append(item.parent["id"].split("_")[-1])

for i in range(2,length+1):

    sauce = urllib.request.urlopen(url+'index'+str(i)+'.html').read()
    soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(sauce, 'lxml')
    
    my_urls = soup.find_all('a', {"class": "bigusername"}, href=re.compile(userId))

    for item in my_urls:
        my_posts.append(item.parent["id"].split("_")[-1])

my_post_urls = []

for item1 in my_posts:
    my_post_urls.append('https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p='+item1)

text = str(my_post_urls)

saveFile = open('2p2_PGC_urls_1.txt', 'a')
saveFile.write(text)
saveFile.close()