Web scraping is a process of using software bots called web scrapers in extracting information from HTML or XML content of a web page. Beautiful Soup is a library used for scraping data through python. Beautiful Soup works along with a parser to provide iteration, searching, and modifying the content that the parser provides(in the form of a parse tree). It's fairly easy to crawl through the web pages and to find the text of a given tag using Beautiful Soup.
In this article, we will discuss finding the text from the given tag.
Step-by-step Approach:
- First import the library.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
- Now assign the URL.
# assign URL
url = "https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/"
- Fetch the raw HTML content from the URL.
html_content = requests.get(url).text
- Now parse through the content.
# Now that the content is ready, iterate
# through the content using BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, "html.parser")
- After the content is parsed we search for a specific tag and print its text.
print(soup.find('title'))
Below is the complete program.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
# Assign URL
url = "https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/"
# Fetch raw HTML content
html_content = requests.get(url).text
# Now that the content is ready, iterate
# through the content using BeautifulSoup:
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, "html.parser")
# similarly to get all the occurrences of a given tag
print(soup.find('title').text)
Output:
Similarly to get all the occurrences of the given tag:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
# Assign URL
url = "https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/"
# Fetch raw HTML content
html_content = requests.get(url).text
# Now that the content is ready, iterate
# through the content using BeautifulSoup:
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, "html.parser")
# similarly to get all the occurrences of a given tag
texts = soup.find_all('p')
for text in texts:
print(text.get_text())
Output:
