Insert html string into BeautifulSoup object

Question

I am trying to insert an html string into a BeautifulSoup object. If I insert it directly, bs4 sanitizes the html. If take the html string and create a soup from it, and ins

Answer 1

Simplest way, if you already have an html string, is to insert another BeautifulSoup object.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

doc = '''

 test1

'''

soup = BeautifulSoup(doc, 'html.parser')

soup.div.append(BeautifulSoup('
insert1
', 'html.parser'))

print soup.prettify()

Output:

 test1

 insert1

Update 1

How about this? Idea is to use BeautifulSoup to generate the right AST node (span tag). Looks like this avoids the "None" problem.

import bs4
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

mainSoup = BeautifulSoup("""

    

    


""", 'html.parser')

extraSoup = BeautifulSoup('', 'html.parser')
tag = mainSoup.find(class_='first')
tag.insert(1, extraSoup.span)

print mainSoup.find(class_='second')

Output: