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The following code prints abnormally too much whitespace for much of the output.

import bs4

import requests





res = requests.get('https://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/search.php?do=finduser&userid=126807&contenttype=vBForum_Post&showposts=1')

soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(res.text, 'lxml')

print(soup)

Here is the part of the output where the formatting becomes a problem:

Sportsbooks & The Industry    Service Plays    /   "   >   N   e   w   b   i   e       F   o   r   u   m   /   a   >   /   l   i   >   

Prettify does not change anything. Any idea why this occurs?

If you check source code of website, you will see it has whitespaces around it (Right Click on webpage and click 'Show Page Source')

I run your code and it prints without newlines and whitespaces.

You can do something like

import bs4

import requests





res = requests.get('https://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/search.php?do=finduser&userid=126807&contenttype=vBForum_Post&showposts=1')

soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(res.text, 'lxml')

print(soup.prettify())

Try this:

Change to soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(res.text, 'html.parser') instead of 'lxml'

import bs4

import requests





res = requests.get('https://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/search.php?do=finduser&userid=126807&contenttype=vBForum_Post&showposts=1')

soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(res.text, 'html.parser')

print(soup)