Question

I need to get the text from a span with no id, class or name tag but from a custom tag like so

<span itemprop="name">the text i Need</span>

I have tried as fallows:

def handle_data(data):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(data)
    info = soup.find('span',itemprop="name").text
    return(info)

But all I get is just get a blank screen
Using beautiful soap with python on the web.
any help? thanks!

Answer 1

Try use the ‘contents’ property instead of ‘text’:

info = soup.find('span', itemprop='name').contents