Extract text from html string with beautiful soup

Question

I write the following code to extract price from webpage:

from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = "https://www.teleborsa.it/azioni/intesa-sanpaolo-isp-it0000072618-SVQwMDAwMDcyNjE4"
html = urlopen(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(html,'lxml')
prize = soup.select('.h-price')
print(prize)

output is:

<span class="h-price fc0" id="ctl00_phContents_ctlHeader_lblPrice">1,384</span>

i want to extract 1,384 value.

Answer 1

Try this

document.getElementById("ctl00_phContents_ctlHeader_lblPrice").innerText

Or if you are having dynamic elements, you can iterate over each element and get innerText from it.

Answer 2

You can use .text property to get the desired text.

For example:

from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = "https://www.teleborsa.it/azioni/intesa-sanpaolo-isp-it0000072618-SVQwMDAwMDcyNjE4"
html = urlopen(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(html,'lxml')
prize = soup.select_one('.h-price') # <- change to .select_one() to get only one element
print(prize.text)                   # <- use the .text property to get text of the tag

Prints:

1,384