strings generator 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. One drawback of the string attribute is that it only works for tags with string inside it and returns nothing for tags with further tags inside it. Thus to resolve this issue, a strings generator is used to get all the strings inside a tag, recursively.
Syntax:
tag.strings
Below given examples explain the concept of strings in Beautiful Soup.
Example 1: In this example, we are going to get the strings.
Python3
# Import Beautiful Soupfrom bs4 import BeautifulSoup# Create the documentdoc = "<body><b> Hello world </b><h1> New heading </h1><body>"# Initialize the object with the documentsoup = BeautifulSoup(doc, "html.parser")# Get the whole body tagtag = soup.body# Print each string recursivelyfor string in tag.strings: print(string) |
Output:
Hello world New heading
Example 2:
Python3
import requestsfrom bs4 import BeautifulSoup# url of the website # getting response objectres = requests.get(doc)# Initialize the object with the documentsoup = BeautifulSoup(res.content, "html.parser")# Get the whole body tagtag = soup.body# Print each string recursivelyfor string in tag.strings: print(string) |
Output:
