Question

Suppose I have an html page source like:

<p><font face="Arial" color="#400040"><small><strong>

<a href="some_link">description</a>: </strong>some text.</small></font></p>

I want to just extract the “description part?
How do I do this. I think there is a very pythonic way to do this.
Thanks

Answer 1

Get BeautifulSoup. Then:

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(your_text)
description = soup.find('a').string

You may need to modify the last line to uniquely identify your a tag.