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Asked: 2026-06-04T17:05:10+00:00

I’ve been looking at documentation and they don’t cover this issue. I’m trying to

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I’ve been looking at documentation and they don’t cover this issue. I’m trying to extract all text and all links, but not separately. I want them interleaved to preserve context. I want to end up with an interleaved list of text and links. Is this even possible with BeautifulSoup?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes, this is definitely possible.

    import urllib2
import BeautifulSoup

request = urllib2.Request("http://www.example.com")
response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(response)
for a in soup.findAll('a'):
    print a

    Breaking this code snippet down, you are making a request for a website (in this case Google.com) and parsing the response back with BeautifulSoup. Your requirements were to find all links and text and keep the context. The output of the above code will look like this:

    <a href="/"><img src="/_img/iana-logo-pageheader.png" alt="Homepage" /></a>
<a href="/domains/">Domains</a>
<a href="/numbers/">Numbers</a>
<a href="/protocols/">Protocols</a>
<a href="/about/">About IANA</a>
<a href="/go/rfc2606">RFC 2606</a>
<a href="/about/">About</a>
<a href="/about/presentations/">Presentations</a>
<a href="/about/performance/">Performance</a>
<a href="/reports/">Reports</a>
<a href="/domains/">Domains</a>
<a href="/domains/root/">Root Zone</a>
<a href="/domains/int/">.INT</a>
<a href="/domains/arpa/">.ARPA</a>
<a href="/domains/idn-tables/">IDN Repository</a>
<a href="/protocols/">Protocols</a>
<a href="/numbers/">Number Resources</a>
<a href="/abuse/">Abuse Information</a>
<a href="http://www.icann.org/">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers</a>
<a href="mailto:iana@iana.org?subject=General%20website%20feedback">iana@iana.org</a>
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