python - html - how to modify code by converting text outside of a tag into a tag
2
How to replace/convert/correct a string representing tag into a tag?
I have below example where I need to clean some parts of the code and need to convert strings like </div> into the proper tags
html = """
<html>
<body>
<div>
</div> <----- how to convert the line into </div>
<div class="first_class">
<h1 id="Header_1">
Header_1
</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
"""
I tried
soup = BeautifulSoup(html,"lxml")
tag = soup.find(text="<")
tag.replace_with("<")
print(soup.prettify())
but this logic doesn't work, the find function doesn't pick up the string. The fact that the text is outside of any tag makes it more difficult. How can this be achieved?
python html beautifulsoup
asked Nov 16 '18 at 2:30
ChrisChris
342213
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2
How to replace/convert/correct a string representing tag into a tag?
I have below example where I need to clean some parts of the code and need to convert strings like </div> into the proper tags
html = """
<html>
<body>
<div>
</div> <----- how to convert the line into </div>
<div class="first_class">
<h1 id="Header_1">
Header_1
</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
"""
I tried
soup = BeautifulSoup(html,"lxml")
tag = soup.find(text="<")
tag.replace_with("<")
print(soup.prettify())
but this logic doesn't work, the find function doesn't pick up the string. The fact that the text is outside of any tag makes it more difficult. How can this be achieved?
python html beautifulsoup
asked Nov 16 '18 at 2:30
ChrisChris
342213
Did you try:soup.find(text="<")? The string was encoded in the original HTML, but BeautifulSoup should have decoded them when parsing and therefore used the decoded version for matching find.
– Lie Ryan
Nov 16 '18 at 5:50
add a comment |
2
2
2
How to replace/convert/correct a string representing tag into a tag?
I have below example where I need to clean some parts of the code and need to convert strings like </div> into the proper tags
html = """
<html>
<body>
<div>
</div> <----- how to convert the line into </div>
<div class="first_class">
<h1 id="Header_1">
Header_1
</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
"""
I tried
soup = BeautifulSoup(html,"lxml")
tag = soup.find(text="<")
tag.replace_with("<")
print(soup.prettify())
but this logic doesn't work, the find function doesn't pick up the string. The fact that the text is outside of any tag makes it more difficult. How can this be achieved?
python html beautifulsoup
asked Nov 16 '18 at 2:30
ChrisChris
342213
How to replace/convert/correct a string representing tag into a tag?
I have below example where I need to clean some parts of the code and need to convert strings like </div> into the proper tags
html = """
<html>
<body>
<div>
</div> <----- how to convert the line into </div>
<div class="first_class">
<h1 id="Header_1">
Header_1
</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
"""
I tried
soup = BeautifulSoup(html,"lxml")
tag = soup.find(text="<")
tag.replace_with("<")
print(soup.prettify())
but this logic doesn't work, the find function doesn't pick up the string. The fact that the text is outside of any tag makes it more difficult. How can this be achieved?
python html beautifulsoup
python html beautifulsoup
asked Nov 16 '18 at 2:30
ChrisChris
342213
asked Nov 16 '18 at 2:30
ChrisChris
342213
asked Nov 16 '18 at 2:30
ChrisChris
342213
asked Nov 16 '18 at 2:30
ChrisChris
342213
asked Nov 16 '18 at 2:30
ChrisChris
342213
342213
Did you try:soup.find(text="<")? The string was encoded in the original HTML, but BeautifulSoup should have decoded them when parsing and therefore used the decoded version for matching find.
– Lie Ryan
Nov 16 '18 at 5:50
add a comment |
Did you try:soup.find(text="<")? The string was encoded in the original HTML, but BeautifulSoup should have decoded them when parsing and therefore used the decoded version for matching find.
– Lie Ryan
Nov 16 '18 at 5:50
Did you try:
soup.find(text="<")? The string was encoded in the original HTML, but BeautifulSoup should have decoded them when parsing and therefore used the decoded version for matching find.– Lie Ryan
Nov 16 '18 at 5:50
Did you try:
soup.find(text="<")? The string was encoded in the original HTML, but BeautifulSoup should have decoded them when parsing and therefore used the decoded version for matching find.– Lie Ryan
Nov 16 '18 at 5:50
add a comment |
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Using str.replace
In [3]: print(html.replace('<', '<').replace('>', '>'))
<html>
<body>
<div>
</div>
<div class="first_class">
<h1 id="Header_1">
Header_1
</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
To place into BeautifulSoup from a file. Open the file first, replace the malformed text and then load the contents to BeautifulSoup. Something like this
with open('malformed.html') as f:
malformed = f.read()
html = malformed.replace('<', '<').replace('>', '>')
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html)
answered Nov 16 '18 at 3:14
aydowaydow
2,46511127
@ aydow that works on the self contained example, however when I load the html from a file into beautifulsoup first and then try to replace I get an error 'NoneType' object is not callable. Do you know how to work around that?
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 0:54
@Chris see updated answer
– aydow
Nov 17 '18 at 23:01
add a comment |
1
I think you need a function to decode them, such as unescape on html.parser.
from html.parser import HTMLParser
unescape = HTMLParser().unescape
html = """
<html>
<body>
<div>
</div> <----- how to convert the line into </div>
<div class="first_class">
<h1 id="Header_1">
Header_1
</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
"""
print(unescape(html))
Output
<html>
<body>
<div>
</div> <----- how to convert the line into </div>
<div class="first_class">
<h1 id="Header_1">
Header_1
</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
answered Nov 16 '18 at 5:41
kcorlidykcorlidy
2,2482619
@ kcorlidy, the logic doesn't work in case the html part is first parsed into BeautifulSoup like html=(, BeautifulSoup(open('C:\FolderTest.html'), 'html.parser')) error: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 0:01
1
i ranhtml=(BeautifulSoup(open('C:\FolderTest.html'), 'html.parser'))but i did not get such error. If you want to read as bytes, useopen('C:\FolderTest.html','rb'). Btw you must close the file when you reading finished. Usewith open('Test.html',"rb") as fd: html = BeautifulSoup(fd.read(), 'html.parser')
– kcorlidy
Nov 17 '18 at 2:07
add a comment |
0
Try using regular expressions instead.
Something like:
html = re.sub("<", "<", html)
for less-than and
html = re.sub(">", ">", html)
for greater-than.
Make sure you import re first.
Edit: for reference on how to use re.sub - https://lzone.de/examples/Python%20re.sub
Edit2: After some further research it seems like str.replace() is faster, so you may want to use that instead.
answered Nov 16 '18 at 2:51
jwoffjwoff
76112
@ jwoff, doesn't work in case the html is loaded from the file into BeautifulSoup first, do some operations and then try to replace at the end. I tried to convert the Beautifulsoap object into the string like str(html) and replace and convert back to beautifulsoup for nice output format, but there were some small unexpected changes to the structure of the code.
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 1:01
add a comment |
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Using str.replace
In [3]: print(html.replace('<', '<').replace('>', '>'))
<html>
<body>
<div>
</div>
<div class="first_class">
<h1 id="Header_1">
Header_1
</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
To place into BeautifulSoup from a file. Open the file first, replace the malformed text and then load the contents to BeautifulSoup. Something like this
with open('malformed.html') as f:
malformed = f.read()
html = malformed.replace('<', '<').replace('>', '>')
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html)
answered Nov 16 '18 at 3:14
aydowaydow
2,46511127
@ aydow that works on the self contained example, however when I load the html from a file into beautifulsoup first and then try to replace I get an error 'NoneType' object is not callable. Do you know how to work around that?
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 0:54
@Chris see updated answer
– aydow
Nov 17 '18 at 23:01
add a comment |
1
Using str.replace
In [3]: print(html.replace('<', '<').replace('>', '>'))
<html>
<body>
<div>
</div>
<div class="first_class">
<h1 id="Header_1">
Header_1
</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
To place into BeautifulSoup from a file. Open the file first, replace the malformed text and then load the contents to BeautifulSoup. Something like this
with open('malformed.html') as f:
malformed = f.read()
html = malformed.replace('<', '<').replace('>', '>')
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html)
answered Nov 16 '18 at 3:14
aydowaydow
2,46511127
@ aydow that works on the self contained example, however when I load the html from a file into beautifulsoup first and then try to replace I get an error 'NoneType' object is not callable. Do you know how to work around that?
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 0:54
@Chris see updated answer
– aydow
Nov 17 '18 at 23:01
add a comment |
1
1
1
Using str.replace
In [3]: print(html.replace('<', '<').replace('>', '>'))
<html>
<body>
<div>
</div>
<div class="first_class">
<h1 id="Header_1">
Header_1
</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
To place into BeautifulSoup from a file. Open the file first, replace the malformed text and then load the contents to BeautifulSoup. Something like this
with open('malformed.html') as f:
malformed = f.read()
html = malformed.replace('<', '<').replace('>', '>')
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html)
answered Nov 16 '18 at 3:14
aydowaydow
2,46511127
Using str.replace
In [3]: print(html.replace('<', '<').replace('>', '>'))
<html>
<body>
<div>
</div>
<div class="first_class">
<h1 id="Header_1">
Header_1
</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
To place into BeautifulSoup from a file. Open the file first, replace the malformed text and then load the contents to BeautifulSoup. Something like this
with open('malformed.html') as f:
malformed = f.read()
html = malformed.replace('<', '<').replace('>', '>')
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html)
answered Nov 16 '18 at 3:14
aydowaydow
2,46511127
edited Nov 17 '18 at 23:01
answered Nov 16 '18 at 3:14
aydowaydow
2,46511127
answered Nov 16 '18 at 3:14
aydowaydow
2,46511127
answered Nov 16 '18 at 3:14
aydowaydow
2,46511127
2,46511127
@ aydow that works on the self contained example, however when I load the html from a file into beautifulsoup first and then try to replace I get an error 'NoneType' object is not callable. Do you know how to work around that?
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 0:54
@Chris see updated answer
– aydow
Nov 17 '18 at 23:01
add a comment |
@ aydow that works on the self contained example, however when I load the html from a file into beautifulsoup first and then try to replace I get an error 'NoneType' object is not callable. Do you know how to work around that?
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 0:54
@Chris see updated answer
– aydow
Nov 17 '18 at 23:01
@ aydow that works on the self contained example, however when I load the html from a file into beautifulsoup first and then try to replace I get an error 'NoneType' object is not callable. Do you know how to work around that?
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 0:54
@ aydow that works on the self contained example, however when I load the html from a file into beautifulsoup first and then try to replace I get an error 'NoneType' object is not callable. Do you know how to work around that?
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 0:54
@Chris see updated answer
– aydow
Nov 17 '18 at 23:01
@Chris see updated answer
– aydow
Nov 17 '18 at 23:01
add a comment |
1
I think you need a function to decode them, such as unescape on html.parser.
from html.parser import HTMLParser
unescape = HTMLParser().unescape
html = """
<html>
<body>
<div>
</div> <----- how to convert the line into </div>
<div class="first_class">
<h1 id="Header_1">
Header_1
</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
"""
print(unescape(html))
Output
<html>
<body>
<div>
</div> <----- how to convert the line into </div>
<div class="first_class">
<h1 id="Header_1">
Header_1
</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
answered Nov 16 '18 at 5:41
kcorlidykcorlidy
2,2482619
@ kcorlidy, the logic doesn't work in case the html part is first parsed into BeautifulSoup like html=(, BeautifulSoup(open('C:\FolderTest.html'), 'html.parser')) error: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 0:01
1
i ranhtml=(BeautifulSoup(open('C:\FolderTest.html'), 'html.parser'))but i did not get such error. If you want to read as bytes, useopen('C:\FolderTest.html','rb'). Btw you must close the file when you reading finished. Usewith open('Test.html',"rb") as fd: html = BeautifulSoup(fd.read(), 'html.parser')
– kcorlidy
Nov 17 '18 at 2:07
add a comment |
1
I think you need a function to decode them, such as unescape on html.parser.
from html.parser import HTMLParser
unescape = HTMLParser().unescape
html = """
<html>
<body>
<div>
</div> <----- how to convert the line into </div>
<div class="first_class">
<h1 id="Header_1">
Header_1
</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
"""
print(unescape(html))
Output
<html>
<body>
<div>
</div> <----- how to convert the line into </div>
<div class="first_class">
<h1 id="Header_1">
Header_1
</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
answered Nov 16 '18 at 5:41
kcorlidykcorlidy
2,2482619
@ kcorlidy, the logic doesn't work in case the html part is first parsed into BeautifulSoup like html=(, BeautifulSoup(open('C:\FolderTest.html'), 'html.parser')) error: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 0:01
1
i ranhtml=(BeautifulSoup(open('C:\FolderTest.html'), 'html.parser'))but i did not get such error. If you want to read as bytes, useopen('C:\FolderTest.html','rb'). Btw you must close the file when you reading finished. Usewith open('Test.html',"rb") as fd: html = BeautifulSoup(fd.read(), 'html.parser')
– kcorlidy
Nov 17 '18 at 2:07
add a comment |
1
1
1
I think you need a function to decode them, such as unescape on html.parser.
from html.parser import HTMLParser
unescape = HTMLParser().unescape
html = """
<html>
<body>
<div>
</div> <----- how to convert the line into </div>
<div class="first_class">
<h1 id="Header_1">
Header_1
</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
"""
print(unescape(html))
Output
<html>
<body>
<div>
</div> <----- how to convert the line into </div>
<div class="first_class">
<h1 id="Header_1">
Header_1
</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
answered Nov 16 '18 at 5:41
kcorlidykcorlidy
2,2482619
I think you need a function to decode them, such as unescape on html.parser.
from html.parser import HTMLParser
unescape = HTMLParser().unescape
html = """
<html>
<body>
<div>
</div> <----- how to convert the line into </div>
<div class="first_class">
<h1 id="Header_1">
Header_1
</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
"""
print(unescape(html))
Output
<html>
<body>
<div>
</div> <----- how to convert the line into </div>
<div class="first_class">
<h1 id="Header_1">
Header_1
</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
answered Nov 16 '18 at 5:41
kcorlidykcorlidy
2,2482619
answered Nov 16 '18 at 5:41
kcorlidykcorlidy
2,2482619
answered Nov 16 '18 at 5:41
kcorlidykcorlidy
2,2482619
answered Nov 16 '18 at 5:41
kcorlidykcorlidy
2,2482619
2,2482619
@ kcorlidy, the logic doesn't work in case the html part is first parsed into BeautifulSoup like html=(, BeautifulSoup(open('C:\FolderTest.html'), 'html.parser')) error: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 0:01
1
i ranhtml=(BeautifulSoup(open('C:\FolderTest.html'), 'html.parser'))but i did not get such error. If you want to read as bytes, useopen('C:\FolderTest.html','rb'). Btw you must close the file when you reading finished. Usewith open('Test.html',"rb") as fd: html = BeautifulSoup(fd.read(), 'html.parser')
– kcorlidy
Nov 17 '18 at 2:07
add a comment |
@ kcorlidy, the logic doesn't work in case the html part is first parsed into BeautifulSoup like html=(, BeautifulSoup(open('C:\FolderTest.html'), 'html.parser')) error: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 0:01
1
i ranhtml=(BeautifulSoup(open('C:\FolderTest.html'), 'html.parser'))but i did not get such error. If you want to read as bytes, useopen('C:\FolderTest.html','rb'). Btw you must close the file when you reading finished. Usewith open('Test.html',"rb") as fd: html = BeautifulSoup(fd.read(), 'html.parser')
– kcorlidy
Nov 17 '18 at 2:07
@ kcorlidy, the logic doesn't work in case the html part is first parsed into BeautifulSoup like html=(, BeautifulSoup(open('C:\FolderTest.html'), 'html.parser')) error: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 0:01
@ kcorlidy, the logic doesn't work in case the html part is first parsed into BeautifulSoup like html=(, BeautifulSoup(open('C:\FolderTest.html'), 'html.parser')) error: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 0:01
1
1
i ran
html=(BeautifulSoup(open('C:\FolderTest.html'), 'html.parser')) but i did not get such error. If you want to read as bytes, use open('C:\FolderTest.html','rb'). Btw you must close the file when you reading finished. Use with open('Test.html',"rb") as fd: html = BeautifulSoup(fd.read(), 'html.parser')– kcorlidy
Nov 17 '18 at 2:07
i ran
html=(BeautifulSoup(open('C:\FolderTest.html'), 'html.parser')) but i did not get such error. If you want to read as bytes, use open('C:\FolderTest.html','rb'). Btw you must close the file when you reading finished. Use with open('Test.html',"rb") as fd: html = BeautifulSoup(fd.read(), 'html.parser')– kcorlidy
Nov 17 '18 at 2:07
add a comment |
0
Try using regular expressions instead.
Something like:
html = re.sub("<", "<", html)
for less-than and
html = re.sub(">", ">", html)
for greater-than.
Make sure you import re first.
Edit: for reference on how to use re.sub - https://lzone.de/examples/Python%20re.sub
Edit2: After some further research it seems like str.replace() is faster, so you may want to use that instead.
answered Nov 16 '18 at 2:51
jwoffjwoff
76112
@ jwoff, doesn't work in case the html is loaded from the file into BeautifulSoup first, do some operations and then try to replace at the end. I tried to convert the Beautifulsoap object into the string like str(html) and replace and convert back to beautifulsoup for nice output format, but there were some small unexpected changes to the structure of the code.
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 1:01
add a comment |
0
Try using regular expressions instead.
Something like:
html = re.sub("<", "<", html)
for less-than and
html = re.sub(">", ">", html)
for greater-than.
Make sure you import re first.
Edit: for reference on how to use re.sub - https://lzone.de/examples/Python%20re.sub
Edit2: After some further research it seems like str.replace() is faster, so you may want to use that instead.
answered Nov 16 '18 at 2:51
jwoffjwoff
76112
@ jwoff, doesn't work in case the html is loaded from the file into BeautifulSoup first, do some operations and then try to replace at the end. I tried to convert the Beautifulsoap object into the string like str(html) and replace and convert back to beautifulsoup for nice output format, but there were some small unexpected changes to the structure of the code.
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 1:01
add a comment |
0
0
0
Try using regular expressions instead.
Something like:
html = re.sub("<", "<", html)
for less-than and
html = re.sub(">", ">", html)
for greater-than.
Make sure you import re first.
Edit: for reference on how to use re.sub - https://lzone.de/examples/Python%20re.sub
Edit2: After some further research it seems like str.replace() is faster, so you may want to use that instead.
answered Nov 16 '18 at 2:51
jwoffjwoff
76112
Try using regular expressions instead.
Something like:
html = re.sub("<", "<", html)
for less-than and
html = re.sub(">", ">", html)
for greater-than.
Make sure you import re first.
Edit: for reference on how to use re.sub - https://lzone.de/examples/Python%20re.sub
Edit2: After some further research it seems like str.replace() is faster, so you may want to use that instead.
answered Nov 16 '18 at 2:51
jwoffjwoff
76112
edited Nov 16 '18 at 6:06
answered Nov 16 '18 at 2:51
jwoffjwoff
76112
answered Nov 16 '18 at 2:51
jwoffjwoff
76112
answered Nov 16 '18 at 2:51
jwoffjwoff
76112
76112
@ jwoff, doesn't work in case the html is loaded from the file into BeautifulSoup first, do some operations and then try to replace at the end. I tried to convert the Beautifulsoap object into the string like str(html) and replace and convert back to beautifulsoup for nice output format, but there were some small unexpected changes to the structure of the code.
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 1:01
add a comment |
@ jwoff, doesn't work in case the html is loaded from the file into BeautifulSoup first, do some operations and then try to replace at the end. I tried to convert the Beautifulsoap object into the string like str(html) and replace and convert back to beautifulsoup for nice output format, but there were some small unexpected changes to the structure of the code.
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 1:01
@ jwoff, doesn't work in case the html is loaded from the file into BeautifulSoup first, do some operations and then try to replace at the end. I tried to convert the Beautifulsoap object into the string like str(html) and replace and convert back to beautifulsoup for nice output format, but there were some small unexpected changes to the structure of the code.
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 1:01
@ jwoff, doesn't work in case the html is loaded from the file into BeautifulSoup first, do some operations and then try to replace at the end. I tried to convert the Beautifulsoap object into the string like str(html) and replace and convert back to beautifulsoup for nice output format, but there were some small unexpected changes to the structure of the code.
– Chris
Nov 17 '18 at 1:01
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soup.find(text="<")? The string was encoded in the original HTML, but BeautifulSoup should have decoded them when parsing and therefore used the decoded version for matching find.– Lie Ryan
Nov 16 '18 at 5:50