Remove all <a> tags

Question

I scraped one container which includes urls for example:

<a href="url">text</a>

I need all to be removed and only the text remain...

import urllib2, sys
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

site = "http://mysite.com"
page = urllib2.urlopen(site)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)

Is it possible?

Answer 1

You can do this with Bleach

PyPi - Bleach

>>> import bleach

>>> bleach.clean('an <script>evil()</script> example')
u'an &lt;script&gt;evil()&lt;/script&gt; example'

>>> bleach.linkify('an http://example.com url')
u'an <a href="http://example.com" rel="nofollow">http://example.com</a> url

>>> bleach.delinkify('a <a href="http://ex.mp">link</a>')
u'a link'