python beautifulsoup get html tag content

Question

How can I get the content of an html tag with beautifulsoup? for example the content of <title> tag?

I tried:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url ='http://www.websiteaddress.com'
soup = BeautifulSoup(url)
result = soup.findAll('title')
for each in result:
    print(each.get_text())

But nothing happened. I'm using python3.

Answer 1

You need to fetch the website data first. You can do this with the urllib.request module. Note that HTML documents only have one title so there is no need to use find_all() and a loop.

from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url ='http://www.websiteaddress.com'
data = urlopen(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(data, 'html.parser')
result = soup.find('title')
print(result.get_text())