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idclark/tag_free_content.py

Created July 22, 2012 01:04
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Useful function to return text content free of HTML tags
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tag_free_content.py
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib2
# choose a url
url = ' '
Soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib2.urlopen(url))
def get_tag_contents(tag_name):
content_list = []
for tag in Soup.find_all(tag_name):
contents = tag.contents
content_list.append(contents)
return content_list
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