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Beautiful Soup | extract method
Beautiful Soup
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schedule Jul 1, 2022
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expand_more In Beautiful Soup, the extract method removes either:
an element and its string
a string
The method returns whatever it removed.
Examples
Consider the following HTML document:
my_html = """ <div> <p>Bob is great</p> </div>"""soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html)
Removing a tag and its content
To remove the p tag as well as its inner content:
Here, we see <p>Bob is great</p> as the output because the extract() method returns whatever you've removed.
After calling extract() on the p tag, it is no longer part of our parse tree:
print(div_tag)
<div></div>
However, the catch is that, although the p tag has been detached from our parse tree, it still exists in memory, and we can still access it:
print(p_tag)
<p>Bob is great</p>
If you want to completely remove the p_tag, then call the decompose() method instead of extract().
Removing a string
To remove the inner text of p:
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Official Beautiful Soup Documentation
https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#extract
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