Extracting certain text in python BS4?

Question

I am trying to extract certain text in BS4. Sample HTML below.


2
Gonzaga
   1 seed, Elite Eight

current code is:

data = soup.findAll('tr', attrs={"class": "seedrow"})
team_name = item.find('td', class_ = 'teamname')
team_id = team_name.find('a').contents[0]
seed = team_name.find('span').text
print(team_id, seed)

This returns:

Gonzaga, '\xa0\xa0\xa01 seed, Elite Eight'

What I want:

Gonzaga, 1 seed, Elite Eight

user_10035985 · Answer

If I understand you right, you want to extract 3 separated strings. You can use .get_text() with custom separator= character and then split on this character:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


txt = '''

2
Gonzaga
   1 seed, Elite Eight
'''

soup = BeautifulSoup(txt, 'html.parser')
data = soup.findAll('tr', attrs={"class": "seedrow"})

for item in data:
    team_name = item.find('td', class_ = 'teamname')

    a, b, c = team_name.get_text(strip=True, separator='|').split('|')

    print(a)
    print(b.strip(','))
    print(c)

Prints:

Gonzaga
1 seed
Elite Eight

Extracting certain text in python BS4?

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