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TheGodParticle
TheGodParticle

Reputation: 13

Access content of span tag in HTML

I have the following code:

from urllib.request import urlopen as uReq
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup

url = 'https://www.drikpanchang.com/?geoname-id=5907364'

#Open web page
uClient = uReq(url)
page_html = uClient.read()
uClient.close()

#Parse html
page_soup = soup(page_html, 'html.parser')

keys = page_soup.findAll('span', {'class': 'dpDainikPanchangKey'})
values = page_soup.findAll('span', {'class': 'dpDainikPanchangValue'})


print(keys[5])
print(values[5])

The output of the code is:

<span class="dpDainikPanchangKey">Karana</span>
<span class="dpDainikPanchangValue">Bava <span class="dpOffColor">upto</span> 08:01 <span class="dpTimeStamp">AM</span></span>

How do I access 'Karana' in keys[5] and 'Bava' in values[5] and assign them to variables?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 750

Answers (2)

Ram
Ram

Reputation: 4779

You can do like this.

To get the value from keys[5], just do

keys_5 = keys[5].text.strip()

To get the desired value from values[5],

  • Use stripped_strings and get the first item.

    val_5 = next(values[5].stripped_strings)

  • You can also use .contents this way

    val_5 = values[5].contents[0]

keys_5 = keys[5].text.strip()
val_5 = next(values[5].stripped_strings)

print(f'keys_5: {keys_5}')
print(f'val_5: {val_5}')

keys_5: Karana
val_5: Kaulava

Upvotes: 0

FountainTree
FountainTree

Reputation: 359

Use the var_1 = keys[5].get_text() or var_1 = keys[5].text. More about the get_text() method can be found on the bs4 documentation page.

For values, use something like var_2 = values[5].text.split()[0] to get 'Bava'.

To explain, .text or .get_text() retrieves the text attribute of the tags you parsed.

There may be a more elegant and bespoke solution for 'Bava', but this will get the job done.

Upvotes: 1

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