How to use Beautiful Soup to extract string in [removed] tag?

Question

In a given .html page, I have a script tag like so:

Answer 1

I ran into a similar problem and the issue seems to be that calling script_tag.text returns an empty string. Instead, you have to call script_tag.string. Maybe this changed in some version of BeautifulSoup?

Anyway, @alecxe's answer didn't work for me, so I modified their solution:

import re

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

data = """

    

"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(data, "html.parser")

script_tag = soup.find("script")
if script_tag:
  # contains all of the script tag, e.g. "jQuery(window)..."
  script_tag_contents = script_tag.string

  # from there you can search the string using a regex, etc.
  email = re.search(r'\.+val\("(.+)"\);', script_tag_contents).group(1)
  print(email)

This prints name@email.com.