- Beautiful Soup Tutorial
- Beautiful Soup - Home
- Beautiful Soup - Overview
- Beautiful Soup - Web Scraping
- Beautiful Soup - Installation
- Beautiful Soup - Souping the Page
- Beautiful Soup - Kinds of objects
- Beautiful Soup - Inspect Data Source
- Beautiful Soup - Scrape HTML Content
- Beautiful Soup - Navigating by Tags
- Beautiful Soup - Find Elements by ID
- Beautiful Soup - Find Elements by Class
- Beautiful Soup - Find Elements by Attribute
- Beautiful Soup - Searching the Tree
- Beautiful Soup - Modifying the Tree
- Beautiful Soup - Parsing a Section of a Document
- Beautiful Soup - Find all Children of an Element
- Beautiful Soup - Find Element using CSS Selectors
- Beautiful Soup - Find all Comments
- Beautiful Soup - Scraping List from HTML
- Beautiful Soup - Scraping Paragraphs from HTML
- BeautifulSoup - Scraping Link from HTML
- Beautiful Soup - Get all HTML Tags
- Beautiful Soup - Get Text Inside Tag
- Beautiful Soup - Find all Headings
- Beautiful Soup - Extract Title Tag
- Beautiful Soup - Extract Email IDs
- Beautiful Soup - Scrape Nested Tags
- Beautiful Soup - Parsing Tables
- Beautiful Soup - Selecting nth Child
- Beautiful Soup - Search by text inside a Tag
- Beautiful Soup - Remove HTML Tags
- Beautiful Soup - Remove all Styles
- Beautiful Soup - Remove all Scripts
- Beautiful Soup - Remove Empty Tags
- Beautiful Soup - Remove Child Elements
- Beautiful Soup - find vs find_all
- Beautiful Soup - Specifying the Parser
- Beautiful Soup - Comparing Objects
- Beautiful Soup - Copying Objects
- Beautiful Soup - Get Tag Position
- Beautiful Soup - Encoding
- Beautiful Soup - Output Formatting
- Beautiful Soup - Pretty Printing
- Beautiful Soup - NavigableString Class
- Beautiful Soup - Convert Object to String
- Beautiful Soup - Convert HTML to Text
- Beautiful Soup - Parsing XML
- Beautiful Soup - Error Handling
- Beautiful Soup - Trouble Shooting
- Beautiful Soup - Porting Old Code
- Beautiful Soup - Functions Reference
- Beautiful Soup - contents Property
- Beautiful Soup - children Property
- Beautiful Soup - string Property
- Beautiful Soup - strings Property
- Beautiful Soup - stripped_strings Property
- Beautiful Soup - descendants Property
- Beautiful Soup - parent Property
- Beautiful Soup - parents Property
- Beautiful Soup - next_sibling Property
- Beautiful Soup - previous_sibling Property
- Beautiful Soup - next_siblings Property
- Beautiful Soup - previous_siblings Property
- Beautiful Soup - next_element Property
- Beautiful Soup - previous_element Property
- Beautiful Soup - next_elements Property
- Beautiful Soup - previous_elements Property
- Beautiful Soup - find Method
- Beautiful Soup - find_all Method
- Beautiful Soup - find_parents Method
- Beautiful Soup - find_parent Method
- Beautiful Soup - find_next_siblings Method
- Beautiful Soup - find_next_sibling Method
- Beautiful Soup - find_previous_siblings Method
- Beautiful Soup - find_previous_sibling Method
- Beautiful Soup - find_all_next Method
- Beautiful Soup - find_next Method
- Beautiful Soup - find_all_previous Method
- Beautiful Soup - find_previous Method
- Beautiful Soup - select Method
- Beautiful Soup - append Method
- Beautiful Soup - extend Method
- Beautiful Soup - NavigableString Method
- Beautiful Soup - new_tag Method
- Beautiful Soup - insert Method
- Beautiful Soup - insert_before Method
- Beautiful Soup - insert_after Method
- Beautiful Soup - clear Method
- Beautiful Soup - extract Method
- Beautiful Soup - decompose Method
- Beautiful Soup - replace_with Method
- Beautiful Soup - wrap Method
- Beautiful Soup - unwrap Method
- Beautiful Soup - smooth Method
- Beautiful Soup - prettify Method
- Beautiful Soup - encode Method
- Beautiful Soup - decode Method
- Beautiful Soup - get_text Method
- Beautiful Soup - diagnose Method
- Beautiful Soup Useful Resources
- Beautiful Soup - Quick Guide
- Beautiful Soup - Useful Resources
- Beautiful Soup - Discussion
Beautiful Soup - get_text() Method
Method Description
The get_text() method returns only the human-readable text from the entire HTML document or a given tag. All the child strings are concatenated by the given separator which is a null string by default.
Syntax
get_text(separator, strip)
Parameters
separator − The child strings will be concatenated using this parameter. By default it is "".
strip − The strings will be stripped before concatenation.
Return Type
The get_Text() method returns a string.
Example 1
In the example below, the get_text() method removes all the HTML tags.
html = ''' <html> <body> <p> The quick, brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.</p> <p> DJs flock by when MTV ax quiz prog.</p> <p> Junk MTV quiz graced by fox whelps.</p> <p> Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymphs.</p> </body> </html> ''' from bs4 import BeautifulSoup soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") text = soup.get_text() print(text)
Output
The quick, brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. DJs flock by when MTV ax quiz prog. Junk MTV quiz graced by fox whelps. Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymphs.
Example 2
In the following example, we specify the separator argument of get_text() method as '#'.
html = ''' <p>The quick, brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.</p> <p>DJs flock by when MTV ax quiz prog.</p> <p>Junk MTV quiz graced by fox whelps.</p> <p>Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymphs.</p> ''' from bs4 import BeautifulSoup soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") text = soup.get_text(separator='#') print(text)
Output
#The quick, brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.# #DJs flock by when MTV ax quiz prog.# #Junk MTV quiz graced by fox whelps.# #Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymphs.#
Example 3
Let us check the effect of strip parameter when it is set to True. By default it is False.
html = ''' <p>The quick, brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.</p> <p>DJs flock by when MTV ax quiz prog.</p> <p>Junk MTV quiz graced by fox whelps.</p> <p>Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymphs.</p> ''' from bs4 import BeautifulSoup soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") text = soup.get_text(strip=True) print(text)
Output
The quick, brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.DJs flock by when MTV ax quiz prog.Junk MTV quiz graced by fox whelps.Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymphs.
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