LXML HTML Text Extraction

This function extracts text from a specific tag in an HTML content using the lxml library. It uses HTML parsing capabilities of lxml to query specific tags and then extract their text content.

Technology Stack : Python, lxml, HTML, XPath

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
import lxml.etree as etree

def extract_text_from_html(html_content, tag_name):
    """
    Extracts text from a specific tag in an HTML content using lxml library.
    """
    root = etree.HTML(html_content)
    elements = root.xpath(f"//{tag_name}")
    text_list = [element.text for element in elements if element.text]
    return text_list