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user1357015
user1357015

Reputation: 11686

beautiful soup just get the value inside the tag

The following command:

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

gives:

<span class="gr_text1" id="volume">16,103.3</span>

when I issue a print(volume).

How do I get just the number?

Upvotes: 34

Views: 75539

Answers (5)

Rohit Soni
Rohit Soni

Reputation: 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])

Upvotes: 0

Sanjay
Sanjay

Reputation: 881

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.

Upvotes: 0

cinv3
cinv3

Reputation: 101

try this:

for a in volume:
    a.get_text()

recent response to this question

managing exceptions 1

managing exceptions 2

Upvotes: 6

falsetru
falsetru

Reputation: 369074

Using css selector:

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

Upvotes: 14

isedev
isedev

Reputation: 19601

Extract the string from the element:

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

Upvotes: 50

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