Extracting text inside HTML paragraph with BeautifulSoup in Python
<p>
<a name="533660373"></a>
<strong>Title: Point of Sale Threats Proliferate</strong><br />
<strong>Severity: Normal Severity</strong><br />
<strong>Published: Thursday, December 04, 2014 20:27</strong><br />
Several new Point of Sale malware families have emerged recently, to include LusyPOS,..<br />
<em>Analysis: Emboldened by past success and media attention, threat actors ..</em>
<br />
</p>
This is the paragraph that I want to lay out in an HTML page using BeautifulSoup in Python. I can get values inside tags using .children and .string methods. But I cannot get the text "Several new malware Point of Sale ..." which is inside a paragraph without any tag. I've tried using soup.p.text, .get_text (), etc, but didn't use.
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Use find_all()
c text=True
to find all text nodes and recursive=False
to search only among the direct children of the parent tag p
:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
data = """
<p>
<a name="533660373"></a>
<strong>Title: Point of Sale Threats Proliferate</strong><br />
<strong>Severity: Normal Severity</strong><br />
<strong>Published: Thursday, December 04, 2014 20:27</strong><br />
Several new Point of Sale malware families have emerged recently, to include LusyPOS,..<br />
<em>Analysis: Emboldened by past success and media attention, threat actors ..</em>
<br />
</p>
"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(data)
print ''.join(text.strip() for text in soup.p.find_all(text=True, recursive=False))
Printing
Several new Point of Sale malware families have emerged recently, to include LusyPOS,..
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