Getting Started with Beautiful Soup

Quick reference

You can take a look at the following references to get an overview:

• Formatted printing: The following method gives the formatted output:
  • soup.prettify(): This method is used to output with indentation and formatting
• Unformatted printing: These methods give output without any format or indentation:
  • str(soup)
  • soup.encode()
  • soup.decode()
• Formatters: These methods have the ability to control the behavior of the output:
  • soup.prettify(formatter="minimal")
  • soup.prettify(formatter="html")
  • soup.prettify(formatter="None")
  • soup.prettify(formatter=already_defined_func)
• get_text(): This method gives you all the content of an object or a tag:
  • soup.get_text(): This method is used to get all the text content in BeautifulSoup or Tag objects