I’m using beautifulsoup with html5lib, it puts the html, head and body tags automatically:
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BeautifulSoup('<h1>FOO</h1>', 'html5lib') # => <html><head></head><body><h1>FOO</h1></body></html>2
Is there any option that I can set, turn off this behavior ?
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Answer
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In [35]: import bs4 as bs2
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In [36]: bs.BeautifulSoup('<h1>FOO</h1>', "html.parser")4
Out[36]: <h1>FOO</h1>5
This parses the HTML with Python’s builtin HTML parser. Quoting the docs:
Unlike html5lib, this parser makes no attempt to create a well-formed HTML document by adding a
<body>tag. Unlike lxml, it doesn’t even bother to add an<html>tag.
Alternatively, you could use the html5lib parser and just select the element after <body>:
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In [61]: soup = bs.BeautifulSoup('<h1>FOO</h1>', 'html5lib')2
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In [62]: soup.body.next4
Out[62]: <h1>FOO</h1>5