# https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/ from bs4 import BeautifulSoup html_doc = """ <html><head><title>Title</title></head> <body> <p>Element...</p> <div id="jp-post-flair">REMOVE ME</div> </body> </html> """ soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser') element = soup.find("div", id="jp-post-flair") if element: element.decompose() print(soup)