Title: Parse HTML
Slug: parse_html
Summary: How to parse HTML for machine learning in Python.
Date: 2016-09-07 12:00
Category: Machine Learning
Tags: Preprocessing Text Authors: Chris Albon

Preliminaries



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# Load library
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

Create HTML



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# Create some HTML code
html = "<div class='full_name'><span style='font-weight:bold'>Masego</span> Azra</div>"

Parse HTML



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# Parse html
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "lxml")

# Find the div with the class "full_name", show text
soup.find("div", { "class" : "full_name" }).text









    Out[6]:





'Masego Azra'