BeautifulSoup如何获取跨度内的内容？

Question

I'm trying to parse fixture contents from a website I managed to parse Match column but facing difficulty in parsing date and time column.

My program

import re
import pytz
import requests
import datetime
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from espncricinfo.exceptions import MatchNotFoundError, NoScorecardError
from espncricinfo.match import Match

bigbash_article_link = "http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/series/1128817.html?template=fixtures"

r = requests.get(bigbash_article_link)
bigbash_article_html = r.text

soup = BeautifulSoup(bigbash_article_html, "html.parser")


bigbash1_items = soup.find_all("span",{"class": "fixture_date"})
bigbash_items = soup.find_all("span",{"class": "play_team"})
bigbash_article_dict = {}
date_dict = {}

for div in bigbash_items:
    a = div.find('a')['href']
    bigbash_article_dict[div.find('a').string] = a
print(bigbash_article_dict)
for div in bigbash1_items:
    a = div.find('span').string
    date_dict[div.find('span').string] = a
print(date_dict)

When I execute this I get print(bigbash_article_dict) output, but print(date_dict) gives me error, how can I parse date and time content?

Answer 1

Follow your code, you want to get the content inside the tag span. So you should using "div.contents" to get the contents of span.

And your question should be how BeautifulSoup get the content inside a span.

eg.
    div= <span class="fixture_date">
    Thu Feb 22
                            </span>
    div.contents[0].strip()= Thu Feb 22 
    ------------



for div in bigbash1_items:
        print("div=",div)    
        print("div.contents[0].strip()=",div.contents[0].strip(),"\r\n------------\r\n")

Answer 2

Elements with class fixture_date don't have a <span> , they are the span. You can get the data from them directly.

So instead of this:

div.find('span').string

You can do this:

div.string

From the structure of the website, this would return the date on odd iterations (1, 3, ..) and time on even iterations (2, 4, ..).

Oh and I'd advice you to make the variable name meaningful, so rename div to span .
Because in your code, all div variables actually contain <span> tags ;)