BeautifulSoup: just get inside of a tag, no matter how many enclosing tags there are
- by AP257
I'm trying to scrape all the inner html from the <p> elements in a web page using BeautifulSoup. There are internal tags, but I don't care, I just want to get the internal text.
For example, for:
<p>Red</p>
<p><i>Blue</i></p>
<p>Yellow</p>
<p>Light <b>green</b></p>
How can I extract:
Red
Blue
Yellow
Light green
Neither .string nor .contents[0] does what I need. Nor does .extract(), because I don't want to have to specify the internal tags in advance - I want to deal with any that may occur.
Is there a 'just get the visible HTML' type of method in BeautifulSoup?
----UPDATE------
On advice, trying:
p_tags = page.findAll('p',text=True)
for i, p_tag in enumerate(p_tags):
print str(p_tag)
But that doesn't help - it just prints out:
Red
<i>Blue</i>
Yellow
Light <b>green</b>
