BeatifulSoup4 get_text still has javascript
Based partly on Can I remove script tags with BeautifulSoup?
import urllib
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = "http://www.cnn.com"
html = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
# kill all script and style elements
for script in soup(["script", "style"]):
script.decompose() # rip it out
# get text
text = soup.get_text()
# break into lines and remove leading and trailing space on each
lines = (line.strip() for line in text.splitlines())
# break multi-headlines into a line each
chunks = (phrase.strip() for line in lines for phrase in line.split(" "))
# drop blank lines
text = '\n'.join(chunk for chunk in chunks if chunk)
print(text)
To prevent encoding errors at the end...
import urllib
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = url
html = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
# kill all script and style elements
for script in soup(["script", "style"]):
script.extract() # rip it out
# get text
text = soup.get_text()
# break into lines and remove leading and trailing space on each
lines = (line.strip() for line in text.splitlines())
# break multi-headlines into a line each
chunks = (phrase.strip() for line in lines for phrase in line.split(" "))
# drop blank lines
text = '\n'.join(chunk for chunk in chunks if chunk)
print(text.encode('utf-8'))