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David Morin
David Morin

Reputation: 485

Python and BeautifulSoup URL parse

I have the following code which i am using to try and get the title and description from the redsox news. I have it working but for one minor detail. its showing the tags. How can i eliminate them? 

import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
# or if you're using BeautifulSoup4:
# from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib2.urlopen('http://partner.mlb.com/partnerxml/gen/news/rss/bos.xml').read())

title = soup.find('item').title
desc = soup.find('item').description

print "Title: %s " % (title)
print "Summary: %s " % (desc)

This is what it shows

Title: <title>Shaw or Panda? Hot corner duel heats up</title> 
Summary: <description>With two weeks until Opening Day, the hottest topic in Red Sox camp is the competition at the hot corner between incumbent Pablo Sandoval and the emerging Travis Shaw.</description> 
>>>

Upvotes: 2

Views: 866

Answers (2)

markothedev
markothedev

Reputation: 56

print ("Title: %s " % (title.get_text()))
print ("Summary: %s " % (desc.get_text()))

this works

Upvotes: -1

ppaulojr
ppaulojr

Reputation: 3647

Try:

print "Title: %s " % (title.text)
print "Summary: %s " % (desc.text)

You can do better with BeautifulSoup, but this is the quick way to make it work.

Upvotes: 2

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