Python BeautifulSoup: Print the names of all HTML tags of a given web page going through the document tree

BeautifulSoup: Exercise-13 with Solution

Write a Python program to print the names of all HTML tags of a given web page going through the document tree.

Sample Solution:

Python Code:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = 'https://www.python.org/'
reqs = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(reqs.text, 'lxml')
print("\nNames of all HTML tags (https://www.python.org):\n")
for child in soup.recursiveChildGenerator():
    if child.name:
        print(child.name)

Sample Output:

Names of all HTML tags (https://www.python.org):

html
head
meta
meta
link
meta
meta
meta
meta
meta
meta
meta
meta
meta
meta
script
link
link
link
link
link
link
link
link
meta
meta
meta
title
..........

script
script
script
script
script

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