Attributes and Contents of Element
The methods covered earlier return specific parts of the HTML code. BeautifulSoup also allows you to access the attributes and contents of particular elements. To get an elementβs attributes, use the .attrs attribute. For example, retrieve the attributes of the first <div> element.
123456789101112# Importing libraries from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from urllib.request import urlopen # Reading web page url = "https://codefinity-content-media.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/18a4e428-1a0f-44c2-a8ad-244cd9c7985e/jesus.html" page = urlopen(url) html = page.read().decode("utf-8") # Reading HTML with BeautifulSoup soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") print(soup.find("div").attrs)
The result of using the .attrs attribute is a dictionary where the keys are attribute names and the values are their corresponding values. To get the content inside a tag, use the .contents attribute. For example, check the contents of the first <div> element.
123456789101112# Importing libraries from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from urllib.request import urlopen # Reading web page url = "https://codefinity-content-media.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/18a4e428-1a0f-44c2-a8ad-244cd9c7985e/jesus.html" page = urlopen(url) html = page.read().decode("utf-8") # Reading HTML with BeautifulSoup soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") print(soup.find("div").contents)
As observed above, all the newline characters were included in a list of elements, which may not be the most desirable representation of content. If you want to extract only the text within a specific element, utilize the .get_text() method. Compare the results from the example below with the one obtained earlier.
123456789101112# Importing libraries from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from urllib.request import urlopen # Reading web page url = "https://codefinity-content-media.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/18a4e428-1a0f-44c2-a8ad-244cd9c7985e/jesus.html" page = urlopen(url) html = page.read().decode("utf-8") # Reading HTML with BeautifulSoup soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") print(soup.find("div").get_text())
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The methods covered earlier return specific parts of the HTML code. BeautifulSoup also allows you to access the attributes and contents of particular elements. To get an elementβs attributes, use the .attrs attribute. For example, retrieve the attributes of the first <div> element.
123456789101112# Importing libraries from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from urllib.request import urlopen # Reading web page url = "https://codefinity-content-media.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/18a4e428-1a0f-44c2-a8ad-244cd9c7985e/jesus.html" page = urlopen(url) html = page.read().decode("utf-8") # Reading HTML with BeautifulSoup soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") print(soup.find("div").attrs)
The result of using the .attrs attribute is a dictionary where the keys are attribute names and the values are their corresponding values. To get the content inside a tag, use the .contents attribute. For example, check the contents of the first <div> element.
123456789101112# Importing libraries from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from urllib.request import urlopen # Reading web page url = "https://codefinity-content-media.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/18a4e428-1a0f-44c2-a8ad-244cd9c7985e/jesus.html" page = urlopen(url) html = page.read().decode("utf-8") # Reading HTML with BeautifulSoup soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") print(soup.find("div").contents)
As observed above, all the newline characters were included in a list of elements, which may not be the most desirable representation of content. If you want to extract only the text within a specific element, utilize the .get_text() method. Compare the results from the example below with the one obtained earlier.
123456789101112# Importing libraries from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from urllib.request import urlopen # Reading web page url = "https://codefinity-content-media.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/18a4e428-1a0f-44c2-a8ad-244cd9c7985e/jesus.html" page = urlopen(url) html = page.read().decode("utf-8") # Reading HTML with BeautifulSoup soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") print(soup.find("div").get_text())
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