Question

How would I use BeautifulSoup to remove only a tag? The method I found deletes the tag and all other tags and content inside it. I want to remove only the tag and leave everything inside it untouched, e.g.

change this:

<div>
<p>dvgbkfbnfd</p>
<div>
<span>dsvdfvd</span>
</div>
<p>fvjdfnvjundf</p>
</div>

to this:

<p>dvgbkfbnfd</p>
<span>dsvdfvd</span>
<p>fvjdfnvjundf</p>

Answer 1

I’ve voted to close as a duplicate, but in case it’s of use, reapplying slacy’s answer from top related answer on the right gives you this solution:

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

html = '''
<div>
<p>dvgbkfbnfd</p>
<div>
<span>dsvdfvd</span>
</div>
<p>fvjdfnvjundf</p>
</div>
'''

soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
for match in soup.findAll('div'):
    match.replaceWithChildren()

print soup

… which produces the output:

<p>dvgbkfbnfd</p>

<span>dsvdfvd</span>

<p>fvjdfnvjundf</p>