Prerequisite:
In this article, we will learn about how to print pretty in BeautifulSoup Using Python. The requests library is an integral part of Python for making HTTP requests to a specified URL. Whether it be REST APIs or Web Scraping, requests are must be learned for proceeding further with these technologies. When one makes a request to a URI, it returns a response. Python requests provide inbuilt functionalities for managing both the request and response.
pip install requests
Beautiful Soup is a Python library designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping.
pip install beautifulsoup4
What is Pretty Printing?
In simple words we can say, It prettifies the HTML with proper indents and everything.
Let’s Understand Step by step implementation:-
- Import Required Module
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# Import Required Moduleimport requestsfrom bs4 import BeautifulSoup |
- Parse HTML Content
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# Web URLWeb_url = "Enter WEB URL"Â
# Get URL Contentr = requests.get(Web_url)Â
# Parse HTML Codesoup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, 'html.parser') |
- Pretty the HTML Code. BeautifulSoup has a prettify() method.
The prettify() method will turn a Beautiful Soup parse tree into a nicely formatted Unicode string, with a separate line for each tag and each string:
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print(soup.prettify()) |
Below is the implementation:
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# Import Required Moduleimport requestsfrom bs4 import BeautifulSoupÂ
# Web URLÂ
# Get URL Contentr = requests.get(Web_url)Â
# Parse HTML Codesoup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, 'html.parser')print(soup.prettify()) |
Output:
