How to delete line in HTML file with BeautifulSoup?

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I am new to using BeautifulSoup.

I have a line in an HTML file that is stored locally.

<LINK rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="report.css" >

I wish to remove that line, but I don't know what approach to use to find the line and remove it.

I can find the line using: old_text = soup.find("link", {"href": "report.css"}) But I can't work out how to remove and save the file again?

web-scraping beautifulsoup python-3.x html python
1 Answers

You could use .decompose() to get rid of the tag:

soup.find("link", {"href": "report.css"}).decompose()

or

soup.select_one('link[href^="report."]').decompose()

and convert BeautifulSoup object back to string and save it:

str(soup)

Example

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html = '''
<some tag>some content</some tag>
<LINK rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="report.css" >
<some tag>some content</some tag>
'''
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")

soup.select_one('link[href^="report."]').decompose()

print(str(soup))
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