The contents list is provided by Beautiful Soup which is a web scraping framework for Python. Web scraping is the process of extracting data from the website using automated tools to make the process faster. The content is a list that contains the tag’s children.
Syntax:
tag.contents
Below given examples explain the concept of contents in Beautiful Soup.
Example 1: In this example, we are going to get the contents of the element.
Python3
# Import Beautiful Soup from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # Create the document doc = "<body><b> Hello world </b><body>" # Initialize the object with the document soup = BeautifulSoup(doc, "html.parser") # Get the whole content from the body tag contents = soup.body.contents # Print the contents print(contents) |
Output:
[<b> Hello world </b>, <body></body>]
Example 2: In this example, we are going to see the type of contents.
Python3
# Import Beautiful Soup from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # Create the document doc = "<body><b> Hello world </b><body>" # Initialize the object with the document soup = BeautifulSoup(doc, "html.parser") # Get the whole content from the body tag contents = soup.body.contents # Print the type of contents print(type(contents)) |
Output:
<type 'list'>
