How to use BeautifulSoup in python
BeautifulSoup 4 in Python.Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files.
html_doc = """
<html><head><title>The Dormouse's story</title></head>
<body>
<p class="title"><b>The Dormouse's story</b></p>
<p class="story">Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and their names were
<a href="http://example.com/elsie" class="sister" id="link1">Elsie</a>,
<a href="http://example.com/lacie" class="sister" id="link2">Lacie</a> and
<a href="http://example.com/tillie" class="sister" id="link3">Tillie</a>;
and they lived at the bottom of a well.</p>
<p class="story">...</p>
"""
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser')
#print soup.prettify()
print soup.title
print soup.title.name
print soup.title.string
print soup.title.parent.name
print soup.p
print soup.p['class']
print soup.a
print soup.find_all('a')
print soup.find('a')
print soup.find(id="link1")
OUTPUT
======
<title>The Dormouse's story</title>
title
The Dormouse's story
head
<p class="title"><b>The Dormouse's story</b></p>
[u'title']
<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>
[<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>, <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">Lacie</a>, <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">Tillie</a>]
<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>
<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>
html_doc = """
<html><head><title>The Dormouse's story</title></head>
<body>
<p class="title"><b>The Dormouse's story</b></p>
<p class="story">Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and their names were
<a href="http://example.com/elsie" class="sister" id="link1">Elsie</a>,
<a href="http://example.com/lacie" class="sister" id="link2">Lacie</a> and
<a href="http://example.com/tillie" class="sister" id="link3">Tillie</a>;
and they lived at the bottom of a well.</p>
<p class="story">...</p>
"""
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser')
#print soup.prettify()
print soup.title
print soup.title.name
print soup.title.string
print soup.title.parent.name
print soup.p
print soup.p['class']
print soup.a
print soup.find_all('a')
print soup.find('a')
print soup.find(id="link1")
OUTPUT
======
<title>The Dormouse's story</title>
title
The Dormouse's story
head
<p class="title"><b>The Dormouse's story</b></p>
[u'title']
<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>
[<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>, <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">Lacie</a>, <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">Tillie</a>]
<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>
<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>
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