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pythonhtmlbeautifulsoup
htifcs
htifcs

Reputation: 187

Remove all style, scripts, and html tags from an html page

Here is what I have so far:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

def cleanme(html):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html) # create a new bs4 object from the html data loaded
    for script in soup(["script"]): 
        script.extract()
    text = soup.get_text()
    return text
testhtml = "<!DOCTYPE HTML>\n<head>\n<title>THIS IS AN EXAMPLE </title><style>.call {font-family:Arial;}</style><script>getit</script><body>I need this text captured<h1>And this</h1></body>"

cleaned = cleanme(testhtml)
print (cleaned)

This is working to remove the script

Upvotes: 16

Views: 25479

Answers (6)

Dmitriy Zub
Dmitriy Zub

Reputation: 1724

Another implementation in addition to styvane answer. If you want to extract a lot of text, check out selectolax, it's much faster than lxml

Code and example in the online IDE:

def clean_me(html):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'lxml')

    body = soup.body
    if body is None:
        return None

    # removing everything besides text
    for tag in body.select('script'):
        tag.decompose()
    for tag in body.select('style'):
        tag.decompose()

    plain_text = body.get_text(separator='\n').strip()
    print(plain_text)

clean_me()

Upvotes: 0

james-see
james-see

Reputation: 13206

It looks like you almost have it. You need to also remove the html tags and css styling code. Here is my solution (I updated the function):

def cleanMe(html):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") # create a new bs4 object from the html data loaded
    for script in soup(["script", "style"]): # remove all javascript and stylesheet code
        script.extract()
    # get text
    text = soup.get_text()
    # break into lines and remove leading and trailing space on each
    lines = (line.strip() for line in text.splitlines())
    # break multi-headlines into a line each
    chunks = (phrase.strip() for line in lines for phrase in line.split("  "))
    # drop blank lines
    text = '\n'.join(chunk for chunk in chunks if chunk)
    return text

Upvotes: 28

Martin Thoma
Martin Thoma

Reputation: 136725

Using instead:

# Requirements: pip install lxml

import lxml.html.clean


def cleanme(content):
    cleaner = lxml.html.clean.Cleaner(
        allow_tags=[''],
        remove_unknown_tags=False,
        style=True,
    )
    html = lxml.html.document_fromstring(content)
    html_clean = cleaner.clean_html(html)
    return html_clean.text_content().strip()

testhtml = "<!DOCTYPE HTML>\n<head>\n<title>THIS IS AN EXAMPLE </title><style>.call {font-family:Arial;}</style><script>getit</script><body>I need this text captured<h1>And this</h1></body>"
cleaned = cleanme(testhtml)
print (cleaned)

Upvotes: 4

Soroush
Soroush

Reputation: 465

Removing specified tags and comments in a clean manner. Thanks to Kim Hyesung for this code.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from bs4 import Comment

def cleanMe(html):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html5lib")    
    [x.extract() for x in soup.find_all('script')]
    [x.extract() for x in soup.find_all('style')]
    [x.extract() for x in soup.find_all('meta')]
    [x.extract() for x in soup.find_all('noscript')]
    [x.extract() for x in soup.find_all(text=lambda text:isinstance(text, Comment))]
    return soup

Upvotes: 6

Sede
Sede

Reputation: 61273

You can use decompose to completely remove the tags from the document and stripped_strings generator to retrieve the tag content.

def clean_me(html):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
    for s in soup(['script', 'style']):
        s.decompose()
    return ' '.join(soup.stripped_strings)

>>> clean_me(testhtml) 
'THIS IS AN EXAMPLE I need this text captured And this'

Upvotes: 15

Sanxofon
Sanxofon

Reputation: 981

If you want a quick and dirty solution you ca use:

re.sub(r'<[^>]*?>', '', value)

To make an equivalent of strip_tags in php. Is that what you want?

Upvotes: 2

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