Get tag name using Beautifulsoup in Python Last Updated : 23 Jul, 2025 Comments Improve Suggest changes Like Article Like Report Prerequisite: Beautifulsoup Installation Name property is provided by Beautiful Soup which is a web scraping framework for Python. Web scraping is the process of extracting data from the website using automated tools to make the process faster. Name object corresponds to the name of an XML or HTML tag in the original document. Syntax: tag.name Parameters: This function doesn't accept any parameter. Implementation: Example 1: Program to extract name of a XML tag. Python3 # Import module from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # Initialize the object with a XML soup = BeautifulSoup(''' <root> <name_of_tag>the first strong tag</name_of_tag> </root> ''', "lxml") # Get the tag tag = soup.name_of_tag # Get the tag name name = tag.name # Print the output print(name) Output: name_of_tag Example 2: Program that explains the above functionality for a HTML tag. Python3 # Import module from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # Initialize the object with a HTML page soup = BeautifulSoup(''' <html> <h2> Heading 1 </h2> <h1> Heading 2 </h1> </html> ''', "lxml") # Get the whole h2 tag tag = soup.h2 # Get the name of the tag name = tag.name # Print the output print(name) Output: h2 Create Quiz Comment G gurrrung Follow 0 Improve G gurrrung Follow 0 Improve Article Tags : Python Web-scraping Explore Python FundamentalsPython Introduction 2 min read Input and Output in Python 4 min read Python Variables 4 min read Python Operators 4 min read Python Keywords 2 min read Python Data Types 8 min read Conditional Statements in Python 3 min read Loops in Python - For, While and Nested Loops 5 min read Python Functions 5 min read Recursion in Python 4 min read Python Lambda Functions 5 min read Python Data StructuresPython String 5 min read Python Lists 4 min read Python Tuples 4 min read Python Dictionary 3 min read Python Sets 6 min read Python Arrays 7 min read List Comprehension in Python 4 min read Advanced PythonPython OOP Concepts 11 min read Python Exception Handling 5 min read File Handling in Python 4 min read Python Database Tutorial 4 min read Python MongoDB Tutorial 3 min read Python MySQL 9 min read Python Packages 10 min read Python Modules 3 min read Python DSA Libraries 15 min read List of Python GUI Library and Packages 3 min read Data Science with PythonNumPy Tutorial - Python Library 3 min read Pandas Tutorial 4 min read Matplotlib Tutorial 5 min read Python Seaborn Tutorial 3 min read StatsModel Library - Tutorial 3 min read Learning Model Building in Scikit-learn 6 min read TensorFlow Tutorial 2 min read PyTorch Tutorial 6 min read Web Development with PythonFlask Tutorial 8 min read Django Tutorial | Learn Django Framework 7 min read Django ORM - Inserting, Updating & Deleting Data 4 min read Templating With Jinja2 in Flask 6 min read Django Templates 5 min read Build a REST API using Flask - Python 3 min read Building a Simple API with Django REST Framework 3 min read Python PracticePython Quiz 1 min read Python Coding Practice 1 min read Python Interview Questions and Answers 15+ min read Like