Prerequisite: Beautifulsoup Installation
Name property 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. Name object corresponds to the name of an XML or HTML tag in the original document.
Syntax:
tag.name
Parameters: This function doesn’t accept any parameter.
Implementation:
Example 1: Program to extract name of a XML tag.
Python3
# Import module from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # Initialize the object with a XML soup = BeautifulSoup(''' <root> <name_of_tag>the first strong tag</name_of_tag> </root> ''', "lxml") # Get the tag tag = soup.name_of_tag # Get the tag name name = tag.name # Print the output print(name) |
Output:
name_of_tag
Example 2: Program that explains the above functionality for a HTML tag.
Python3
# Import module from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # Initialize the object with a HTML page soup = BeautifulSoup(''' <html> <h2> Heading 1 </h2> <h1> Heading 2 </h1> </html> ''', "lxml") # Get the whole h2 tag tag = soup.h2 # Get the name of the tag name = tag.name # Print the output print(name) |
Output:
h2
