Contents list – Python Beautifulsoup

The contents list 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 content is a list that contains the tag’s children.

Syntax:

 tag.contents

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

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 whole content from the body tag 

contents = soup.body.contents 

# Print the contents 

print(contents)

Output:

[<b> Hello world </b>, <body></body>]

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

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 whole content from the body tag 

contents = soup.body.contents 

# Print the type of contents 

print(type(contents))