How to get text from span tag in BeautifulSoup

Answer 1

You can simply use span tag in BeautifulSoup or you can include other attributes like class, title along with the span tag.

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as BSHTML

htmlText = """<div class="systemRequirementsMainBox">
<div class="systemRequirementsRamContent">
<span title="000 Plus Minimum RAM Requirement">1 GB</span> </div>"""

soup = BSHTML(htmlText)
spans = soup.findAll('span')
# spans = soup.findAll('span', attrs = {'class' : 'your-class-name'}) # or span by class name
# spans = soup.findAll('span', attrs = {'title' : '000 Plus Minimum RAM Requirement'}) # or span with a title
for span in spans:
    print span.text

Answer 2

You could solve this with just a couple lines of gazpacho:

from gazpacho import Soup

html = """\
<div class="systemRequirementsMainBox">
<div class="systemRequirementsRamContent">
<span title="000 Plus Minimum RAM Requirement">1 GB</span> </div>
"""

soup = Soup(html)
soup.find("span", {"title": "Minimum RAM Requirement"}).text
# '1 GB'

Answer 3

You can use a css selector, pulling the span you want using the title text :

soup = BeautifulSoup("""<div class="systemRequirementsMainBox">
<div class="systemRequirementsRamContent">
<span title="000 Plus Minimum RAM Requirement">1 GB</span> </div>""", "xml")

print(soup.select_one("span[title*=RAM]").text)

That finds the span with a title attribute that contains RAM, it is equivalent to saying in python, if "RAM" in span["title"].

Or using find with re.compile

import re
print(soup.find("span", title=re.compile("RAM")).text)

To get all the data:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup 
r  = requests.get("http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=21580&game=000%20Plus").content

soup = BeautifulSoup(r,"lxml")
cont = soup.select_one("div.systemRequirementsRamContent")
ram = cont.select_one("span")
print(ram["title"], ram.text)
for span in soup.select("div.systemRequirementsSmallerBox.sysReqGameSmallBox span"):
        print(span["title"],span.text)

Which will give you:

000 Plus Minimum RAM Requirement 1 GB
000 Plus Minimum Operating System Requirement Win Xp 32
000 Plus Minimum Direct X Requirement DX 9
000 Plus Minimum Hard Disk Drive Space Requirement 500 MB
000 Plus GD Adjusted Operating System Requirement Win Xp 32
000 Plus GD Adjusted Direct X Requirement DX 9
000 Plus GD Adjusted Hard Disk Drive Space Requirement 500 MB
000 Plus Recommended Operating System Requirement Win Xp 32
000 Plus Recommended Hard Disk Drive Space Requirement 500 MB

Answer 4

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