beautiful soup just get the value inside the tag

Question

The following command:

volume = soup.findAll(\"span\", {\"id\": \"volume\"})[0]

gives:

Answer 1

There is a function for getting the value of the tag : tag.contents[0]

Try this :

volumes = soup('span')
for volume in volumes:
     print(volume.contents[0])

Answer 2

Using css selector:

>>> soup.select('span#volume')[0].text
u'16,103.3'

Answer 3

Extract the string from the element:

volume = soup.findAll("span", {"id": "volume"})[0].string

Answer 4

Just to add , I also found the .string dosn't do well when there is <br> in the text.

EG:

 <div class = "Lines">
    <span> First Line <br> Second Line <br> Third Line </span>
  </div>

If we do a soup.find("div",attrs={"class":"Lines}).span.string we get a None

But a soup.find("div",attrs={"class":"Lines}).span.text we get

First Line
Second Line
Third Line

I think the .string gives a NavigatableString object and .text gives a unicode object.

Answer 5

try this:

for a in volume:
    a.get_text()

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