I have the following html:
<div class="txt-block">
<h4 class="inline">Aspect Ratio:</h4> 2.35 : 1
</div>
I want to get the value "2.35 : 1" from the content. However, when I try using lxml, it returns an empty string (I am able to get the 'Aspect Ratio' value, probably because that is neatly between tags.)
item.find('div').text
How would I then get the "2.35 : 1" value? Using etree.tostring does get me the full output.
This is called the .tail of an element:
from lxml.html import fromstring
data = """
<div class="txt-block">
<h4 class="inline">Aspect Ratio:</h4> 2.35 : 1
</div>
"""
root = fromstring(data)
print root.xpath('//h4[@class="inline"]')[0].tail
Prints 2.35 : 1.
As an alternative, you can get the following text sibling of the h4 element:
root.xpath('//h4[@class="inline"]/following-sibling::text()')[0]
Also, make sure you are using lxml.html since you are dealing with an HTML data.
You can also use .text_content(), instead of .text, which will give you the entire text contents of the element (http://lxml.de/lxmlhtml.html) --
>>> item.find('div').text.text_content()
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
The full statement would then be:
>>> title_detail.text_content().split('Aspect Ratio: ')[1].strip()
2.35 : 1
