Modifying the file
Using the prettify method to modify the HTML code from- https://festive-knuth-1279a2.netlify.app/, look better. Prettify makes the code look in the standard form like the one used in VS Code.
Example:
Python3
# Importing BeautifulSoup class from the bs4 module from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # Importing the HTTP library import requests as req # Requesting for the website Web = req.get( 'https://festive-knuth-1279a2.netlify.app/' ) # Creating a BeautifulSoup object and specifying the parser S = BeautifulSoup(Web.text, 'lxml' ) # Using the prettify method print (S.prettify()) |
Output:
How to parse local HTML file in Python?
Prerequisites: Beautifulsoup
Parsing means dividing a file or input into pieces of information/data that can be stored for our personal use in the future. Sometimes, we need data from an existing file stored on our computers, parsing technique can be used in such cases. The parsing includes multiple techniques used to extract data from a file. The following includes Modifying the file, Removing something from the file, Printing data, using the recursive child generator method to traverse data from the file, finding the children of tags, web scraping from a link to extract useful information, etc.