Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 5 years, 5 months ago. Active 5 years, 5 months ago. Viewed 1k times. This usually isn't a problem, but if you run this code on another system, or in a different virtual environment, it may use a different parser and behave differently.
To get rid of this warning, change code that looks like this: BeautifulSoup [your markup] to this: BeautifulSoup [your markup], "html. Improve this question.
Victor 8 8 bronze badges. Vrisk Vrisk 1 1 silver badge 11 11 bronze badges. What is the error you get? OrDuan I have eddited the error into the question — Vrisk. AnirudhGanesh If you look at the error message it's telling you that it can't encode this character codetable.
Show 3 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. James K James K 3, 1 1 gold badge 26 26 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges. Still same error with typo corrected and use of repr k — Vrisk. I'm sorry , I think I misunderstood but str k doesn't help either. I did what you said in the answer , still the same result — Vrisk. I seem to have fixed it , the code ought to have been soup. I ended up going with Beautiful Soup 4, which works beautifully no pun intended. I know that's not AT ALL the place, but i follow the link to Aaron's blog and github profile and projects, and found myself very disturbed by the fact there is no mention of his death and it's of course frozen in , as if time stopped or he took a very long vacation.
Very disturbing. Show 3 more comments. Shatu Shatu 1, 3 3 gold badges 14 14 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. I want to up vote this a thousand times. This seems to be the most straightforward way of doing this in Python 2. Which is really silly, as this is such a commonly needed thing and there's no good reason why there isn't a parser for this in the default HTMLParser module.
I don't think will convert html characters into unicode, right? For Python 3 use from html. Floyd Floyd 1, 16 16 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges. I would recomment ' '. It also includes a trivial plain-text-to-html inverse converter. This handles entities and char refs, but not javascript and stylesheets. There should be an empty space, otherwise some of the texts will join together. I had to tweak it for a better coverage. You can use html2text method in the stripogram library also.
GeekTantra GeekTantra This module, according to its pypi page , is deprecated: "Unless you have some historical reason for using this package, I'd advise against it! There is Pattern library for data mining. Nuncjo Nuncjo 1, 3 3 gold badges 13 13 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. The link is dead or soured.
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Remove if not applicable. Another non-python solution: Libre Office: soffice --headless --invisible --convert-to txt input1.
YakovK YakovK 2 2 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. Seems to work for me too, but they don't recommend using it for this purpose: "This function is a security-focused function whose sole purpose is to remove malicious content from a string such that it can be displayed as content in a web page.
Best worked for me is inscripts. Vim Vim 4 4 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. John Lucas John Lucas 4 4 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Thanks, this answer is underrated. For anyone else, the gist linked has been enhanced quite a bit. What the OP seems to allude to is a tool which renders html to text, much like a text based browser like lynx.
That's what this solution attempts. What most people are contributing are just text extractors. Completely underrated indeed, wow, thank you!
Will check the gist too. David Fraga David Fraga 11 1 1 bronze badge. This doesn't convert anything. Perl way sorry mom, i'll never do it in production. It's true! Don't do it anythere! While alot of people mentioned using regex to strip html tags, there are a lot of downsides.
Uri Goren Uri Goren Another example using BeautifulSoup4 in Python 2. Mike Q Mike Q 5, 2 2 gold badges 45 45 silver badges 54 54 bronze badges. Here's the code I use on a regular basis. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Luckily i could encounter NLTK. It works magically. The best piece of code I found for extracting text without getting javascript or not wanted things :. Found myself facing just the same problem today.
I wrote a very simple HTML parser to strip incoming content of all markups, returning the remaining text with only a minimum of formatting. It skips script and style sections and translates charrefs e. PyParsing does a great job. Paul McGuire has several scrips that are easy to adopt for various uses on the pyparsing wiki. Having said that, I use BeautifulSOup a lot and it is not that hard to deal with the entitites issues, you can convert them before you run BeautifulSoup.
The browser Links not Lynx has a Javascript engine, and will convert source to text with the -dump option. It has a similar interface, but does more of the work for you. In Python 3.
Although this is an older post but maybe my answer can help new comers on this post. Beautiful soup does convert html entities. This is the code I use to convert html to raw text:. I recommend a Python Package called goose-extractor Goose will try to extract the following information:.
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