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I started to learn the beautifulsoup. I am trying to remove from html script a line of code containing </div> .



The most examples in the documentation are presented for the whole tags (opening and closing part).


Is it possible to modify just one part of a tag?
For example:



</div>
<div >Hello</div>
<div data-foo="value">foo!</div>



how to remove just the first line of the code?










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    I started to learn the beautifulsoup. I am trying to remove from html script a line of code containing </div> .



    The most examples in the documentation are presented for the whole tags (opening and closing part).


    Is it possible to modify just one part of a tag?
    For example:



    </div>
    <div >Hello</div>
    <div data-foo="value">foo!</div>



    how to remove just the first line of the code?










    share|improve this question



























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      I started to learn the beautifulsoup. I am trying to remove from html script a line of code containing </div> .



      The most examples in the documentation are presented for the whole tags (opening and closing part).


      Is it possible to modify just one part of a tag?
      For example:



      </div>
      <div >Hello</div>
      <div data-foo="value">foo!</div>



      how to remove just the first line of the code?










      share|improve this question















      I started to learn the beautifulsoup. I am trying to remove from html script a line of code containing </div> .



      The most examples in the documentation are presented for the whole tags (opening and closing part).


      Is it possible to modify just one part of a tag?
      For example:



      </div>
      <div >Hello</div>
      <div data-foo="value">foo!</div>



      how to remove just the first line of the code?







      python html web-scraping beautifulsoup






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          You can use BeautifulSoup's unwrap() to specify the invalid tag, which will only remove the extra tags that don't have a open/close counterpart, while retaining others:



          soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser')

          invalid_tags = ['</div>']

          for tag in invalid_tags:
          for match in soup.findAll(tag):
          match.unwrap()

          print(soup)


          result:



          <div>Hello</div>
          <div data-foo="value">foo!</div>





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          • Shouldn't invalid_tags = ['<div>'] be ['</div>']?
            – aneroid
            Nov 13 at 3:35










          • I don't know, but that works too and is probably the preferred convention, will update, thanks.
            – davedwards
            Nov 13 at 5:33



















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          you don't need do anything it will repaired automatically



          from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

          html_doc = '''</div>
          <div>World</div>
          <div data-foo="value">foo!''' # also invalid, no closing

          soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser')
          print(soup)


          output



          <div>World</div>
          <div data-foo="value">foo!</div>


          unwrap() is for removing not repairing tag.






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            You can use BeautifulSoup's unwrap() to specify the invalid tag, which will only remove the extra tags that don't have a open/close counterpart, while retaining others:



            soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser')

            invalid_tags = ['</div>']

            for tag in invalid_tags:
            for match in soup.findAll(tag):
            match.unwrap()

            print(soup)


            result:



            <div>Hello</div>
            <div data-foo="value">foo!</div>





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            • Shouldn't invalid_tags = ['<div>'] be ['</div>']?
              – aneroid
              Nov 13 at 3:35










            • I don't know, but that works too and is probably the preferred convention, will update, thanks.
              – davedwards
              Nov 13 at 5:33
















            3














            You can use BeautifulSoup's unwrap() to specify the invalid tag, which will only remove the extra tags that don't have a open/close counterpart, while retaining others:



            soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser')

            invalid_tags = ['</div>']

            for tag in invalid_tags:
            for match in soup.findAll(tag):
            match.unwrap()

            print(soup)


            result:



            <div>Hello</div>
            <div data-foo="value">foo!</div>





            share|improve this answer























            • Shouldn't invalid_tags = ['<div>'] be ['</div>']?
              – aneroid
              Nov 13 at 3:35










            • I don't know, but that works too and is probably the preferred convention, will update, thanks.
              – davedwards
              Nov 13 at 5:33














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            3








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            You can use BeautifulSoup's unwrap() to specify the invalid tag, which will only remove the extra tags that don't have a open/close counterpart, while retaining others:



            soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser')

            invalid_tags = ['</div>']

            for tag in invalid_tags:
            for match in soup.findAll(tag):
            match.unwrap()

            print(soup)


            result:



            <div>Hello</div>
            <div data-foo="value">foo!</div>





            share|improve this answer














            You can use BeautifulSoup's unwrap() to specify the invalid tag, which will only remove the extra tags that don't have a open/close counterpart, while retaining others:



            soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser')

            invalid_tags = ['</div>']

            for tag in invalid_tags:
            for match in soup.findAll(tag):
            match.unwrap()

            print(soup)


            result:



            <div>Hello</div>
            <div data-foo="value">foo!</div>






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            • Shouldn't invalid_tags = ['<div>'] be ['</div>']?
              – aneroid
              Nov 13 at 3:35










            • I don't know, but that works too and is probably the preferred convention, will update, thanks.
              – davedwards
              Nov 13 at 5:33


















            • Shouldn't invalid_tags = ['<div>'] be ['</div>']?
              – aneroid
              Nov 13 at 3:35










            • I don't know, but that works too and is probably the preferred convention, will update, thanks.
              – davedwards
              Nov 13 at 5:33
















            Shouldn't invalid_tags = ['<div>'] be ['</div>']?
            – aneroid
            Nov 13 at 3:35




            Shouldn't invalid_tags = ['<div>'] be ['</div>']?
            – aneroid
            Nov 13 at 3:35












            I don't know, but that works too and is probably the preferred convention, will update, thanks.
            – davedwards
            Nov 13 at 5:33




            I don't know, but that works too and is probably the preferred convention, will update, thanks.
            – davedwards
            Nov 13 at 5:33













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            you don't need do anything it will repaired automatically



            from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

            html_doc = '''</div>
            <div>World</div>
            <div data-foo="value">foo!''' # also invalid, no closing

            soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser')
            print(soup)


            output



            <div>World</div>
            <div data-foo="value">foo!</div>


            unwrap() is for removing not repairing tag.






            share|improve this answer


























              1














              you don't need do anything it will repaired automatically



              from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

              html_doc = '''</div>
              <div>World</div>
              <div data-foo="value">foo!''' # also invalid, no closing

              soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser')
              print(soup)


              output



              <div>World</div>
              <div data-foo="value">foo!</div>


              unwrap() is for removing not repairing tag.






              share|improve this answer
























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                1






                you don't need do anything it will repaired automatically



                from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

                html_doc = '''</div>
                <div>World</div>
                <div data-foo="value">foo!''' # also invalid, no closing

                soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser')
                print(soup)


                output



                <div>World</div>
                <div data-foo="value">foo!</div>


                unwrap() is for removing not repairing tag.






                share|improve this answer












                you don't need do anything it will repaired automatically



                from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

                html_doc = '''</div>
                <div>World</div>
                <div data-foo="value">foo!''' # also invalid, no closing

                soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser')
                print(soup)


                output



                <div>World</div>
                <div data-foo="value">foo!</div>


                unwrap() is for removing not repairing tag.







                share|improve this answer












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