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Reputation: 7043

Get span title using beautifulsoup

I have this span and I want to get the title

<span title="Something"></span>

How to get that with beautifulsoup?

res = soup.find('span')
print res //Was trying to add res.title but result is 'None'

Upvotes: 4

Views: 9927

Answers (2)

Gromer
Gromer

Reputation: 9931

You should be able to access it like this:

res = soup.find('span')['title']

Docs

Edit: I shoudl clarify, res would then be the value of the title attribute. If you want the element to use later, change my code to:

res = soup.find('span')
title = res['title']

Then you could keep using res (if needed).

Also, .find is going to return a single element. You'll want to make sure it is the span you want, since the HTML could have more than one span.

Upvotes: 13

MrSynAckSter
MrSynAckSter

Reputation: 1770

This is what the documentation has: 

soup.findAll(['title', 'p'])
# [<title>Page title</title>, 
#  <p id="firstpara" align="center">This is paragraph <b>one</b>.</p>, 
#  <p id="secondpara" align="blah">This is paragraph <b>two</b>.</p>]

soup.findAll({'title' : True, 'p' : True})
# [<title>Page title</title>, 
#  <p id="firstpara" align="center">This is paragraph <b>one</b>.</p>, 
#  <p id="secondpara" align="blah">This is paragraph <b>two</b>.</p>]

You could also use a Regex.

Upvotes: 0

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