Using BeautifulSoup to modify HTML

Question

I want to use Beautifulsoup to modify a whole div of a HTML. I was trying to modify the HTML, however the console output has the modifications, but the actual .

Answer 1

Two things:

1. You need to add some code to write the output from BeautifulSoup back to a file.
2. You should use replace_with() to make changes to the HTML. By converting to a string, you were just modifying a textual copy.

This can be done as follows:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import os

base = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
html = open(os.path.join(base, 'example.html'))
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')

for i in soup.find('div', {"id":None}).findChildren():
    i.replace_with('##')

with open("example_modified.html", "wb") as f_output:
    f_output.write(soup.prettify("utf-8"))