How to write the output to HTML file with Python BeautifulSoup?

In this article, we are going to write the output to an HTML file with Python BeautifulSoup.  BeautifulSoup is a python library majorly used for web scraping but in this article, we will discuss how to write the output to an HTML file.

Modules needed and installation:

pip install bs4

Approach:

• We will first import all the required libraries.
• Make a get request to the desired URL and extract its page content.
• Using the file data type of python write the output in a new file.

Steps to be followed:

Step 1: Import the required libraries.

Step 2: We will perform a get request to the Google search engine home page and extract its page content and make a soup object out of it by passing it to beautiful soup, and we will set the markup as html.parser.

Note: if you are extracting a xml page set the markup as xml.parser

Step 3: We use the file data type of python and write the soup object in the output file. We will set the encoding to UTF-8. We will use .prettify() function on soup object that will make it easier to read. We will convert the soup object to a string before writing it.

We will store the output file in the same directory with the name output.html

Below is the full implementation:

Output: