How to use Regular Expression to extract the answer "Here is the answer" from a HTML webpage like this? <b>Last Question:</b> <b>Here is the answer</b> ..:: Update ::.. Thanks everybody! Here is my solution by using BeautifulSoup since I'm using Python framework: response = opener.open(url) the_page = response.read() soup = BeautifulSoup(''.join(the_page)) paraText1 = soup.body.find('div', 'div_id', text = u'Last Question:') if paraText1: answer = paraText1.next