Prerequisites: Beautifulsoup
Beautifulsoup is a Python library used for web scraping. This powerful python tool can also be used to modify html webpages. This article depicts how beautifulsoup can be employed to change contents within a tag and replace the contents to be changed with the given string. For this, replace_with() function of the module is used.
Syntax:
replace_with(“string”)
Approach:
- Import module
- Scrap data from webpage
- Parse the string scraped to html
- Select tag within which replacement has to be performed
- Add string in place of the existing one using replace_with() function
- Print replaced content
Program:
Python3
# importing BeautifulSoup Modulefrom bs4 import BeautifulSoup# parsering string to HTMLsoup = BeautifulSoup(markup, 'html.parser')# tag to be replacedold_tag = soup.a# new tagnew_tag = soup.new_tag("p")# input stringnew_tag.string = "gfg.in"'''replacing tag#page_element.replace_with("string") removes a tag or string from the tree,#and replaces it with the tag or string of your choice.'''old_tag.i.replace_with(new_tag)print(old_tag) |
Output:
<a href=”http://gfg.com/”>Geeks for Geeks <p>gfg.in</p></a>
