BeautifulSoup - how should I obtain the body contents

beautifulsoup, django, html5lib, python

Solution

Do you mean getting everything inbetween the body tags?

In this case you can use :

import urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
page = urllib2.urlopen('some_site').read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
body = soup.find('body')
the_contents_of_body_without_body_tags = body.findChildren(recursive=False)

Problem

I'm parsing `HTML` with BeautifulSoup. At the end, I would like to obtain the `body` contents, but without the `body` tags. But BeautifulSoup adds `html`, `head`, and `body` tags. I this googlegrops discussion one possible solution is proposed: ``` >>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as Soup >>> soup = Soup('<p>Some paragraph</p>') >>> soup.body.hidden = True >>> soup.body.prettify() u' <p>\n Some paragraph\n </p>' ``` This solution is a hack. There should be a better and obvious way to do it.

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