Count the number of paragraph tag using BeautifulSoup

Last Updated : 07 Apr, 2021

Sometimes, while extracting data from an HTML webpage, do you want to know how many paragraph tags are used in a given HTML document? Don't worry we will discuss about this in this article.

Syntax:

print(len(soup.find_all("p")))

Approach:

Step 1: First, import the libraries, BeautifulSoup, and os.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
import os

Step 2: Now, remove the last segment of the path by entering the name of the Python file in which you are currently working.

base=os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath('#Name of Python file in which you are currently working'))

Step 3: Then, open the HTML file from which you want to read the value.

html=open(os.path.join(base, '#Name of HTML file from which you wish to read value'))

Step 4: Moreover, parse the HTML file in BeautifulSoup.

soup=bs(html, 'html.parser')

Step 5: Next, print a certain line if you want to.

print("Number of paragraph tags:")

Step 6: Finally, calculate and print the number of paragraph tags in the HTML document.

print(len(soup.find_all("p")))

Implementation:

Example 1

Let us consider the simple HTML webpage, which has numerous paragraph tags.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  
 <head>
   Geeks For Geeks
 </head>
  
 <body>
   
 <div>
     
<p>King</p>

     
<p>Prince</p>

     
<p>Queen</p>

 </div>
   
 <p id="vinayak">Princess</p>

  </body>
  
</html>

For finding the number of paragraph tags in the above HTML webpage, implement the following code.

Python

# Python program to get number of paragraph tags
# of a given HTML document in Beautifulsoup

# Import the libraries beautifulsoup 
# and os
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
import os

# Open the HTML file
html = open('gfg.html')

# Parse HTML file in Beautiful Soup
soup = bs(html, 'html.parser')

# Print a certain line
print("Number of paragraph tags:")

# Calculating and printing the
# number of paragraph tags
print(len(soup.find_all("p")))

Output:

Example 2

In the below program, we will find the number of paragraph tags on a particular website.

Python

# Python program to get number of paragraph tags
# of a given Website in Beautifulsoup

# Import the libraries beautifulsoup 
# and os
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
import os
import requests

# Assign URL
URL = 'https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/'

# Page content from Website URL
page = requests.get(URL)

# Parse HTML file in Beautiful Soup
soup = bs(page.content, 'html.parser')

# Print a certain line
print("Number of paragraph tags:")

# Calculating and printing the
# number of paragraph tags
print(len(soup.find_all("p")))