Tag Object - Python Beautifulsoup Last Updated : 05 Sep, 2020 Comments Improve Suggest changes 2 Likes Like Report Tag object is provided by Beautiful Soup which is a web scraping framework for Python. Web scraping is the process of extracting data from the website using automated tools to make the process faster. Tag object corresponds to an XML or HTML tag in the original document. Further, this object is usually used to extract a tag from the whole HTML document. Further, Beautiful Soup is not an HTTP client which means to scrap online websites you first have to download them using requests module and then serve it to Beautiful Soup for scraping. Additionally, this object returns the first found tag if your document have multiple tags with the same name. Prerequisite: Beautiful Soup Installation Syntax: Object.tag_name Parameters: This function doesn't accept any parameter. Below given examples explain the concept of Tag object in Beautiful Soup. Example 1: In this example we are going to extract h1 tag element only. Python3 # Import Beautiful Soup from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # Initialize the object with an HTML page soup = BeautifulSoup(''' <html> <h1>a web page</h1> </html> ''', "lxml") # Get the tag tag = soup.h1 # Print the output print(tag) Output: <h1>a web page</h1> Example 2: In this example we are going to see the type of strong tag element only. Python3 # Import Beautiful Soup from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # Initialize the object with an HTML page soup = BeautifulSoup(''' <html> <strong>a web page</strong> </html> ''', "lxml") # Get the tag tag = soup.strong # Print the output print(type(tag)) Output: <class 'bs4.element.Tag'> Example 3: In this example we are going to see the output from a HTML with multiple tags. Python3 # Import Beautiful Soup from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # Initialize the object with a HTML page soup = BeautifulSoup(''' <html> <strong>the first strong tag</strong> <h1> Heading </h1> <strong>the second strong tag</strong> </html> ''', "lxml") # Get the tag tag = soup.strong # Print the output print(tag) Output: <strong>the first strong tag</strong> Create Quiz Comment G gurrrung Follow 2 Improve G gurrrung Follow 2 Improve Article Tags : Python Explore Python FundamentalsPython Introduction 2 min read Input and Output in Python 4 min read Python Variables 4 min read Python Operators 4 min read Python Keywords 2 min read Python Data Types 8 min read Conditional Statements in Python 3 min read Loops in Python - For, While and Nested Loops 5 min read Python Functions 5 min read Recursion in Python 4 min read Python Lambda Functions 5 min read Python Data StructuresPython String 5 min read Python Lists 4 min read Python Tuples 4 min read Python Dictionary 3 min read Python Sets 6 min read Python Arrays 7 min read List Comprehension in Python 4 min read Advanced PythonPython OOP Concepts 11 min read Python Exception Handling 5 min read File Handling in Python 4 min read Python Database Tutorial 4 min read Python MongoDB Tutorial 3 min read Python MySQL 9 min read Python Packages 10 min read Python Modules 3 min read Python DSA Libraries 15 min read List of Python GUI Library and Packages 3 min read Data Science with PythonNumPy Tutorial - Python Library 3 min read Pandas Tutorial 4 min read Matplotlib Tutorial 5 min read Python Seaborn Tutorial 3 min read StatsModel Library - Tutorial 3 min read Learning Model Building in Scikit-learn 6 min read TensorFlow Tutorial 2 min read PyTorch Tutorial 6 min read Web Development with PythonFlask Tutorial 8 min read Django Tutorial | Learn Django Framework 7 min read Django ORM - Inserting, Updating & Deleting Data 4 min read Templating With Jinja2 in Flask 6 min read Django Templates 5 min read Build a REST API using Flask - Python 3 min read Building a Simple API with Django REST Framework 3 min read Python PracticePython Quiz 1 min read Python Coding Practice 1 min read Python Interview Questions and Answers 15+ min read Like