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# 1  
Old 10-12-2019
[Python] BeautifulSoup tags > </a>
using BeautifulSoup
how can i get the txt between all the

> </a>





example
Code:
>The Student [2017].mp4</a>

thanks
# 2  
Old 10-12-2019
Are you using BeautifulSoup 3 or BeautifulSoup 4?

Beautiful Soup Documentation — Beautiful Soup 4.4.0 documentation

Quote:
Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. It works with your favorite parser to provide idiomatic ways of navigating, searching, and modifying the parse tree. It commonly saves programmers hours or days of work.

These instructions illustrate all major features of Beautiful Soup 4, with examples. I show you what the library is good for, how it works, how to use it, how to make it do what you want, and what to do when it violates your expectations.

The examples in this documentation should work the same way in Python 2.7 and Python 3.2.

You might be looking for the documentation for Beautiful Soup 3. If so, you should know that Beautiful Soup 3 is no longer being developed, and that Beautiful Soup 4 is recommended for all new projects. If you want to learn about the differences between Beautiful Soup 3 and Beautiful Soup 4, see Porting code to BS4.
# 3  
Old 10-12-2019
This should work, according to the docs (untested):

Code:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
markup = '<a href="https://unix.com/">The Student [2017].mp4</a>'
soup = BeautifulSoup(markup)

tag = soup.a
tag.string
# The Student [2017].mp4

Tweak as you see fit .....

Ref:

Beautiful Soup Documentation — Beautiful Soup 4.4.0 documentation
# 4  
Old 10-14-2019
hi thanks for reply


your code did not work

need to get all the txt between all of the > </a>




# 5  
Old 10-14-2019
Works fine for me:

Code:
linux:/tmp# python p.py
The Student [2017].mp4

Code:
linux:/tmp# cat p.py
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
markup = '<a href="https://unix.com/">The Student [2017].mp4</a>'
soup = BeautifulSoup(markup, 'lxml')

tag = soup.a
print tag.string
# The Student [2017].mp4

My goal was to show the way to do it; but you can do things like add print statements in python for yourself Smilie
# 6  
Old 10-14-2019
so your saying that will get me all


the txt between all of the > </a>

on the page not just one

as there are about 200 of them all with different txt between them


# 7  
Old 10-14-2019
I am saying you have not written or posted a single line of code here; nor have you posted a single error message.

Are you expecting us to write your entire code for you?

Read the docs for you? Do all your work for you?

If so, you have come to the wrong place, sorry.

We are here to help you write your own code.

So far, I have written more code than you on this.... LOL .

You have not provided us a single line of YOUR OWN python code.
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