soup2dict

BeautifulSoup4 to python dictionary converter

Why

Its nice to have a convenient way to change your soup into dict.

Installation

Get package with pip or poetry

pip install soup2dict

poetry add soup2dict

Example

import simplejson
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

from soup2dict import convert

html_doc = """
<html>
hei
<head>
    <title>The Dormouse's story</title>
    <title>bob</title>
</head>
<body>
    <p class="title">The <b>Dormouse's story</b></p>
    <p class="story">Once upon a time there were three little sisters;
    and their names were
    <a href="http://example.com/elsie" class="sister" id="link1">Elsie</a>,
    <a href="http://example.com/lacie" class="sister" id="link2">Lacie</a> and
    <a href="http://example.com/tillie" class="sister" id="link3">Tillie</a>;
    and they lived at the bottom of a well.</p>

    <p class="story">...</p>
"""


# Create soup from html_doc data
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser')

# Convert it to a dictionary with convert()
dict_result = convert(soup)

with open('output.json', 'w') as output_file:
    output_file.write(
        simplejson.dumps(dict_result, indent=2),
    )

Output

{
  "html": [
    {
      "#text": "hei The Dormouse's story bob The Dormouse's story Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and their names were Elsie , Lacie and Tillie ; and they lived at the bottom of a well. ...",
      "navigablestring": [
        "hei"
      ],
      "head": [
        {
          "#text": "The Dormouse's story bob",
          "title": [
            {
              "#text": "The Dormouse's story",
              "navigablestring": [
                "The Dormouse's story"
              ]
            },
            {
              "#text": "bob",
              "navigablestring": [
                "bob"
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "body": [
        {
          "#text": "The Dormouse's story Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and their names were Elsie , Lacie and Tillie ; and they lived at the bottom of a well. ...",
          "p": [
            {
              "@class": [
                "title"
              ],
              "#text": "The Dormouse's story",
              "navigablestring": [
                "The"
              ],
              "b": [
                {
                  "#text": "Dormouse's story",
                  "navigablestring": [
                    "Dormouse's story"
                  ]
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "@class": [
                "story"
              ],
              "#text": "Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and their names were Elsie , Lacie and Tillie ; and they lived at the bottom of a well.",
              "navigablestring": [
                "Once upon a time there were three little sisters;\n    and their names were",
                ",",
                "and",
                ";\n    and they lived at the bottom of a well."
              ],
              "a": [
                {
                  "@href": "http://example.com/elsie",
                  "@class": [
                    "sister"
                  ],
                  "@id": "link1",
                  "#text": "Elsie",
                  "navigablestring": [
                    "Elsie"
                  ]
                },
                {
                  "@href": "http://example.com/lacie",
                  "@class": [
                    "sister"
                  ],
                  "@id": "link2",
                  "#text": "Lacie",
                  "navigablestring": [
                    "Lacie"
                  ]
                },
                {
                  "@href": "http://example.com/tillie",
                  "@class": [
                    "sister"
                  ],
                  "@id": "link3",
                  "#text": "Tillie",
                  "navigablestring": [
                    "Tillie"
                  ]
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "@class": [
                "story"
              ],
              "#text": "...",
              "navigablestring": [
                "..."
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}