strings 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. One drawback of the string attribute is that it only works for tags with string inside it and returns nothing for tags with further tags inside it. Thus to resolve this issue, a strings generator is used to get all the strings inside a tag, recursively.
Syntax:
tag.strings
Below given examples explain the concept of strings in Beautiful Soup.
Example 1: In this example, we are going to get the strings.
Python3
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
doc = "<body><b> Hello world </b><h1> New heading </h1><body>"
soup = BeautifulSoup(doc, "html.parser")
tag = soup.body
for string in tag.strings:
print(string)
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Output:
Hello world
New heading
Example 2:
Python3
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
res = requests.get(doc)
soup = BeautifulSoup(res.content, "html.parser")
tag = soup.body
for string in tag.strings:
print(string)
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Output: