Python BeautifulSoup: Find and print all li tags of a given web page

Last update on May 28 2022 13:23:01 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

BeautifulSoup: Exercise-17 with Solution

Write a Python program to find and print all li tags of a given web page.

Sample Solution:

Python Code:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = 'https://www.w3resource.com/'
reqs = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(reqs.text, 'lxml')
print("\nFind and print all li tags:\n")
for tag in soup.find_all("li"):
    print("{0}: {1}".format(tag.name, tag.text))

Sample Output:

Find and print all li tags:

li: Front End
li: HTML
li: CSS
li: JavaScript
li: HTML5
li: Schema.org
li: php.js
li: Twitter Bootstrap
li: Responsive Web Design tutorial
li: Zurb Foundation 3 tutorials
li: Pure CSS
li: HTML5 Canvas
li: JavaScript Course
li: Icon
li: Linux
li: Linux Home
li: Linux Commands
li: Linux Server Administration
li: Back End
li: PHP
............
li: Form Template
li: Forms Template
li: Slides
li: Slides Presentation
li: Google Docs
li: Forms Template
li: Slide Presentation
li: Conversion Tools
li: Number Conversion
li: MS Excel
li: Excel 2013 tutorial
li: Videos
li: PHP Videos
li: JavaScript Videos
li: Tools
li: Firebug Tutorial
li: Useful Tools
li: Facebook
li: Twitter
li: Google Plus
li: Linkedin
li: RSS
li: Privacy
li: About
li: Contact
li: Feedback
li: Advertise

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Python: Tips of the Day

Find current directory and file's directory:

To get the full path to the directory a Python file is contained in, write this in that file:

import os 
dir_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))

(Note that the incantation above won't work if you've already used os.chdir() to change your current working directory, since the value of the __file__ constant is relative to the current working directory and is not changed by an os.chdir() call.)

To get the current working directory use

import os
cwd = os.getcwd()

Documentation references for the modules, constants and functions used above:

The os and os.path modules.
The __file__ constant
os.path.realpath(path) (returns "the canonical path of the specified filename, eliminating any symbolic links encountered in the path")
os.path.dirname(path) (returns "the directory name of pathname path")
os.getcwd() (returns "a string representing the current working directory")
os.chdir(path) ("change the current working directory to path")

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