Can I remove script tags with BeautifulSoup?

Question

Can <script> tags and all of their contents be removed from HTML with BeautifulSoup, or do I have to use Regular Expressions or something else?

Answer 1

>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup >>> soup = BeautifulSoup('<script>a</script>baba<script>b</script>', 'html.parser') >>> for s in soup.select('script'): >>>    s.extract() >>> soup baba 

Answer 2

Updated answer for those who might need for future reference: The correct answer is. decompose(). You can use different ways but decompose works in place.

Example usage:

soup = BeautifulSoup('<p>This is a slimy text and <i> I am slimer</i></p>') soup.i.decompose() print str(soup) #prints '<p>This is a slimy text and</p>' 

Pretty useful to get rid of detritus like <script>, <img> and so forth.