'str' Object Has No Attribute 'p' Using Beautifulsoup

I have been following a tutorial on using BeautifulSoup, however when I try to read the title or even paragraphs (using soup.p) I get an error saying, 'Traceback (most recent call

Solution 1:

Quoting Beautiful Soup Documentation

The prettify() method will turn a Beautiful Soup parse tree into a nicely formatted Unicode string, with each HTML/XML tag on its own line.

You set an string to soup var here: soup = soup.prettify(). Of course a string has not p property, then crashes.

To find all ps:

...
page = response.read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(page, "html5lib")
for paragraph in soup.find_all('p'):
    do_something_with(paragraph)