Python BeautifulSoup: Retrieve all the paragraph tags from a given html document

Last update on December 21 2024 07:24:29 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Write a Python program to retrieve all the paragraph tags from a given html document.

Sample Solution:

Python Code:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html_doc = """
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>An example of HTML page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>This is an example HTML page</h2>
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc at nisi velit,
aliquet iaculis est. Curabitur porttitor nisi vel lacus euismod egestas. In hac
habitasse platea dictumst. In sagittis magna eu odio interdum mollis. Phasellus
sagittis pulvinar facilisis. Donec vel odio volutpat tortor volutpat commodo.
Donec vehicula vulputate sem, vel iaculis urna molestie eget. Sed pellentesque
adipiscing tortor, at condimentum elit elementum sed. Mauris dignissim
elementum nunc, non elementum felis condimentum eu. In in turpis quis erat
imperdiet vulputate. Pellentesque mauris turpis, dignissim sed iaculis eu,
euismod eget ipsum. Vivamus mollis adipiscing viverra. Morbi at sem eget nisl
euismod porta.</p>
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</body>
</html>
"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser')
print("All paragraph tags:")
print(soup.find_all("p"))

Sample Output:

All paragraph tags: [

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc at nisi velit, aliquet iaculis est. Curabitur porttitor nisi vel lacus euismod egestas. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. In sagittis magna eu odio interdum mollis. Phasellus sagittis pulvinar facilisis. Donec vel odio volutpat tortor volutpat commodo. Donec vehicula vulputate sem, vel iaculis urna molestie eget. Sed pellentesque adipiscing tortor, at condimentum elit elementum sed. Mauris dignissim elementum nunc, non elementum felis condimentum eu. In in turpis quis erat imperdiet vulputate. Pellentesque mauris turpis, dignissim sed iaculis eu, euismod eget ipsum. Vivamus mollis adipiscing viverra. Morbi at sem eget nisl euismod porta.

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