Strip HTML tags to get strings in python

Question

I tried to get some strings from an HTML file with BeautifulSoup and everytime I work with it I get partial results.

I want to get the strings in every li element/tag. S

Answer 1

Use beautiful soups - .strings method.

for string in soup.stripped_strings:
print(repr(string))

from the docs:

If there’s more than one thing inside a tag, you can still look at just the strings. Use the .strings generator:

or

These strings tend to have a lot of extra whitespace, which you can remove by using the .stripped_strings generator instead: