Getting Started with Beautiful Soup

Quick reference

You can take a look at the following references to get an overview of the modifying content:

• Modifying the Tag name:

  The following code line modifies the name property:

  • tag.name = "newvalue": This line of code modifies the Tag name as newvalue
• Modifying the Tag attribute:

  The following code lines alter the attributes:

  • tag["attr"] = "newvalue": This line of code modifies the Tag attribute
  • del tag["attr"]: This line of code deletes the Tag attribute
• Adding new tags:

  The following code lines correspond to the addition of content:

  • newtag = soup.new_tag('tagname'): This line of code creates newtag
  • oldtag.append(newtag): This line of code appends newtag to oldtag.contents
  • oldtag.insert(0,newtag): This line of code inserts newtag at the index 0