How to access html of after opening webpage with webbrowser

Question

I was wondering if it possible to access the html or body of a webpage after opening one using the webbrowser library?

import webbrowser

url = "https://testwebsite.com/"
chromePath = "C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe %s"
testing = webbrowser.get(chromePath).open(url)
print(testing)

This works and gets to the webpage, but prints out True/False since it is a bool. Is there anyway to make it print out the html or body of that website?

Why do you want to get the HTML? What do you want to do with it? — , Jul 25 '18 at 15:23
@intentionallyleftblank because I would like to put the text into a file. — Lux, Jul 25 '18 at 15:25
Possible duplicate of [How do I download a file over HTTP using Python?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22676/how-do-i-download-a-file-over-http-using-python) — , Jul 25 '18 at 15:27

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 25 '18 at 15:29

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To get the content of the webpage in python you can use urllib.

import urllib
googleContent = urllib.urlopen("http://google.com").read()

will save the content of google.com in the variable googleContent.

answered Jul 25 '18 at 15:29

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