python with beautifulsoup - remove tags

Question

I am doing some python program to extract lyrics

the code i use:

    import urllib
    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
    url = urllib.urlopen("http://www.lyricsnmusic.com/david-bowie/slip-away-lyrics/22143075")
    soup = BeautifulSoup(url.read())
    print soup.find('pre', itemprop='description')

the result gets me what i need but with the extra of the tag for example : <pre item="description> then the lyrics anyone know how to get only the lyrics? the structure puts the lyrics between the pre tag thanks in advance

Answer 1

Use the text attribute of the node that you've found

import urllib
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
url = urllib.urlopen("http://www.lyricsnmusic.com/david-bowie/slip-away-lyrics/2
2143075")
soup = BeautifulSoup(url.read())
desc=soup.find('pre', itemprop='description')
print desc.text