Using pyperclip with BeautifulSoup

Question

Is it possible to pass BeautifulSoup a HTML I have copied in my clipboard using pyperclip. I have difficulties using requests as the page requires login, and the usual methods for passing cookies to requests doesn't work.

Which usual methods did you try out and what site? – West Aug 17 '20 at 08:44 — West, Aug 17 '20 at 08:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 17 '20 at 08:33

The first approach using Pyperclip would be:

soup = BeautifulSoup(pyperclip.paste(), "html.parser")

You could also save the html file locally with Ctrl+S and import the html file in Python:

with open(r'yourfile.html', "r", encoding='utf-8') as html_file:
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html_file.read(), "html.parser")

Using pyperclip with BeautifulSoup

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