Python BeautifulSoup: Retrieve children of the html tag from a given web page

Last update on December 21 2024 07:24:26 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Write a Python program to retrieve children of the html tag from a given web page.

Sample Solution:

Python Code:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = 'https://www.python.org/'
reqs = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(reqs.text, 'lxml')
print("\nChildren of the html tag (https://www.python.org):\n")
root = soup.html    
root_childs = [e.name for e in root.children if e.name is not None]
print(root_childs)

Sample Output:

Children of the html tag (https://www.python.org):

['head', 'body']

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