children generator – Python Beautifulsoup

children generator is provided by Beautiful Soup which is a web scraping framework for Python. Web scraping is the process of extracting data from the website using automated tools to make the process faster. The children generator is used to iterate over the tag’s children. Each child is going to be the tag element.

Syntax:

tag.children

Below given examples explain the concept of children generator in Beautiful Soup.
Example 1: In this example, we are going to get the children of elements.

Python3

# Import Beautiful Soup 

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup 

# Create the document 

doc = "<body><b> Hello world </b><body>"

# Initialize the object with the document 

soup = BeautifulSoup(doc, "html.parser") 

# Get the body tag 

tag = soup.body 

# Print the children of tag 

for child in tag.children: 

    print(child)

Output:

<b> Hello world </b>
<body></body>

Example 2: In this example, we are going to see the type of children.

Python3

# Import Beautiful Soup 

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup 

# Create the document 

doc = "<body><b> Hello world </b><body>"

# Initialize the object with the document 

soup = BeautifulSoup(doc, "html.parser") 

# Get the body tag 

tag = soup.body 

# Print the type of children of tag 

for child in tag.children: 

    print(type(child))

Output:

<class 'bs4.element.Tag'>
<class 'bs4.element.Tag'>

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