... <html><head><title>The Dormouse's story</title></head>
... <body>
... <p class="title"><b>The Dormouse's story</b></p>
...
... <p class="story">Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and their names were
... <a href="http://example.com/elsie" class="sister" id="link1">Elsie</a>,
... <a href="http://example.com/lacie" class="sister" id="link2">Lacie</a> and
... <a href="http://example.com/tillie" class="sister" id="link3">Tillie</a>;
... and they lived at the bottom of a well.</p>
...
... <p class="story">...</p>
... """
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser')
>>>
>>> print(soup.prettify())
<html>
<head>
<title>
The Dormouse's story
</title>
</head>
<body>
<p class="title">
<b>
The Dormouse's story
</b>
</p>
<p class="story">
Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and their names were
<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">
Elsie
</a>
,
<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">
Lacie
</a>
and
<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">
Tillie
</a>
;
and they lived at the bottom of a well.
</p>
<p class="story">
...
</p>
</body>
</html>
>>>
----------------------
>>> soup.title
<title>The Dormouse's story</title>
>>> soup.title.name
'title'
>>> soup.title.string
"The Dormouse's story"
>>> soup.title.parent.name
'head'
>>> soup.p
<p class="title"><b>The Dormouse's story</b></p>
>>> soup.p['class']
['title']
>>> soup.a
<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>
>>> soup.find_all('a')
[<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>, <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">Lacie</a>, <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">Tillie</a>]
>>> soup.find(id="link3")
<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">Tillie</a>
>>>
----------------
>>> for link in soup.find_all('a'): ... print(link.get('href')) ... http://example.com/elsie http://example.com/lacie http://example.com/tillie >>>
>>> print(soup.get_text()) The Dormouse's story The Dormouse's story Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and their names were Elsie, Lacie and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well. ... >>> The Dormouse's story The Dormouse's story Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and their names were Elsie, Lacie and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well. ... >>>