>>> import requests >>> r = requests.get("http://python123.io/ws/demo.html") >>> r.text '<html><head><title>This is a python demo page</title></head>\r\n<body>\r\n<p class="title"><b>The demo python introduces several python courses.</b></p>\r\n<p class="course">Python is a wonderful general-purpose programming language. You can learn Python from novice to professional by tracking the following courses:\r\n<a href="http://www.icourse163.org/course/BIT-268001" class="py1" id="link1">Basic Python</a> and <a href="http://www.icourse163.org/course/BIT-1001870001" class="py2" id="link2">Advanced Python</a>.</p>\r\n</body></html>' >>> demo = r.text >>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup >>> soup = BeautifulSoup(demo,"html.parser") >>> soup <html><head><title>This is a python demo page</title></head> <body> <p class="title"><b>The demo python introduces several python courses.</b></p> <p class="course">Python is a wonderful general-purpose programming language. You can learn Python from novice to professional by tracking the following courses:
<a class="py1" href="http://www.icourse163.org/course/BIT-268001" id="link1">Basic Python</a> and <a class="py2" href="http://www.icourse163.org/course/BIT-1001870001" id="link2">Advanced Python</a>.</p> </body></html> >>> print(soup.prettify()) <html> <head> <title> This is a python demo page </title> </head> <body> <p class="title"> <b> The demo python introduces several python courses. </b> </p> <p class="course"> Python is a wonderful general-purpose programming language. You can learn Python from novice to professional by tracking the following courses: <a class="py1" href="http://www.icourse163.org/course/BIT-268001" id="link1"> Basic Python </a> and <a class="py2" href="http://www.icourse163.org/course/BIT-1001870001" id="link2"> Advanced Python </a> . </p> </body> </html>