Remove all javascript tags and style tags from html with python and the lxml module

Below is an example to do what you want. For an HTML document, Cleaner is a better general solution to the problem than using strip_elements, because in cases like this you want to strip out more than just the <script> tag; you also want to get rid of things like onclick=function() attributes on other tags.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import lxml
from lxml.html.clean import Cleaner

cleaner = Cleaner()
cleaner.javascript = True # This is True because we want to activate the javascript filter
cleaner.style = True      # This is True because we want to activate the styles & stylesheet filter

print("WITH JAVASCRIPT & STYLES")
print(lxml.html.tostring(lxml.html.parse('http://www.google.com')))
print("WITHOUT JAVASCRIPT & STYLES")
print(lxml.html.tostring(cleaner.clean_html(lxml.html.parse('http://www.google.com'))))

You can get a list of the options you can set in the lxml.html.clean.Cleaner documentation; some options you can just set to True or False (the default) and others take a list like:

cleaner.kill_tags = ['a', 'h1']
cleaner.remove_tags = ['p']

Note that the difference between kill vs remove:

remove_tags:
  A list of tags to remove. Only the tags will be removed, their content will get pulled up into the parent tag.
kill_tags:
  A list of tags to kill. Killing also removes the tag's content, i.e. the whole subtree, not just the tag itself.
allow_tags:
  A list of tags to include (default include all).

You can use the strip_elements method to remove scripts, then use strip_tags method to remove other tags:

etree.strip_elements(fragment, 'script')
etree.strip_tags(fragment, 'a', 'p') # and other tags that you want to remove

You can use bs4 libray also for this purpose.

soup = BeautifulSoup(html_src, "lxml")
[x.extract() for x in soup.findAll(['script', 'style'])]