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| from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
| def parseContent( content ): | |
| # parse the html using beautiful soap and store in variable `soup` | |
| soup = BeautifulSoup(content, 'html.parser') | |
| # Take out the <div> of name and get its value | |
| content = soup.find_all(['h1','h2','h3','h4','h5', 'p','a']) | |
| text = "" | |
| for tag in content: | |
| if tag.string is not None: | |
| text = text + " " + tag.string | |
| return text |
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