Converting HTML to Text with BeautifulSoup
Many times while working with web automation we need to convert HTML code into Text. This can be done using the BeautifulSoup. This module provides get_text() function that takes HTML as input and returns text as output.
Example 1:
Python3
# importing the libraryfrom bs4 import BeautifulSoup# Initializing variablegfg = BeautifulSoup("<b>Section </b><br/>BeautifulSoup<ul>\<li>Example <b>1</b></li>")# Calculating resultres = gfg.get_text()# Printing the resultprint(res) |
Output:
Section BeautifulSoupExample 1
Example 2: This example extracts data from the live website then converts it into text. In this example, we used the request module from urllib library to read HTML data from URL.
Python3
# importing the libraryfrom bs4 import BeautifulSoupfrom urllib import request# Initializing variablegfg = BeautifulSoup(request.urlopen(url).read())# Extracting data for article sectionbodyHtml = gfg.find('article', {'class' : 'content'})# Calculating resultres = bodyHtml.get_text()# Printing the resultprint(res) |
Output:
