BS4: removing <a> tags

Question

I'm using BeautifulSoup 4, I have below HTML:

<tr>
  <td>London <a href="/company/mcrt/5" target="_blank">10 vol</a> 54 page</td>
</tr>

I'm trying to remove just the "a" tag and keep the text inside, like this:

<tr>
  <td>London 10 vol 54 page</td>
</tr>

Is there any way to do it with bs4?

Answer 1

You are searching for .unwrap() method:

txt = '''<tr>
  <td>London <a href="/company/mcrt/5" target="_blank">10 vol</a> 54 page</td>
</tr>'''

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup(txt, 'html.parser')

soup.a.unwrap()

print(soup)

Prints:

<tr>
<td>London 10 vol 54 page</td>
</tr>