[FIXED] Beautifulsoup output with indentation

Issue

New to Python webscraping and BeautifulSoup.

I'd like to format the following so when it outputs the tags, it does so indented

H1 text
   H2 text
      H3 text
   H2 text
   ...

etc.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
soup = BeautifulSoup(website.content, 'html.parser')
tags = soup.find_all(['h1', 'h2'])
for soups in tags:
print(soups.string)

Your help is much appreciated.

Solution

You can define a dictionary of indents/prefixes

preString =  {'h1': '', 'h2': '\t', 'h3':'\t\t', 'h4':'\t\t\t'}

then you can just loop and print like:

tags = soup.find_all([t for t in preString])
for soups in [t for t in tags if t.string]:
    print(preString[soups.name]+soups.string)

I filtered with if t.string in case they have tags inside rather than just text. Using .text gets you the full text regardless of child tags; if you want that, and you want your find_all to be independent, you can instead:

tags = soup.find_all(['h1', 'h2'])
for soups in tags:
    preStr = preString[soups.name] if soups.name in preString else ''
    print(preStr+soups.string)

(You can add a default indent/prefix after the else when defining preStr)

Answered By - Driftr95