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Maverick
Maverick

Reputation: 799

Beautiful soup - 'ResultSet' object has no attribute 'text'

I am trying to extract just the text from an anchor tag. I understand that find_all returns a ResultSet object and that I need to iterate over it, however, I can't seem to get it work. My code below: 

for all in soup.find("div", {"id": "info-area"}):
    Name = all.find_all("a")
    #print(Name) # Returns everything
    #print(Name.text) # throws error 
    for the_name in Name:
        print(Name.text) # throws error

Obviously, I'm doing something wrong but not quite sure what?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2348

Answers (2)

ExtractTable.com
ExtractTable.com

Reputation: 811

@Maverick,

"Name" is the list, which has all 'a' tag elements.

You can not use .text attribute on a list.

To my understanding, the below code should work

for the_name in Name:
    print(the_name.text)

Your approach is correct. But the mistake you did in the above loop is, for each element in the list you have call the element("the_name") not the list ("Name")

Upvotes: 0

Tiny.D
Tiny.D

Reputation: 6556

The problem is the first for loop, change your code to:

all_div = soup.find("div", {"id": "info-area"}) #find div with id = info-area
Name = all_div.find_all("a") # under all_div find all a
for the_name in Name: #loop through each a
    print(the_name.text) #print each a text

Upvotes: 1

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