Strip HTML tags to get strings in python

Question

I tried to get some strings from an HTML file with BeautifulSoup and everytime I work with it I get partial results.

I want to get the strings in every li element/tag. S

Answer 1

Iterate over results and get the value of text attribute:

for element in soup.select(".sidebar li"):
    print element.text

Example:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


data = """

    

        
Def Leppard -  Make Love Like A ManLive 
        
Inxs - Never Tear Us Apart        
    

"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(data)
for element in soup.select('li'):
    print element.text

prints:

Def Leppard -  Make Love Like A ManLive 
Inxs - Never Tear Us Apart