Python beautiful soup removing extra text

Question

<div class="friendBlockContent">
                Bartdavy<br>
                <span class="friendSmallText">
        Online
                </span>
            </div>

is the html, and I tried

 for div in soup.findAll("div", class_="friendBlockContent", ):
     print(div)

And this gives me if he's online, I only wanna get the name, how could I do this?

Possible duplicate of [Only extracting text from this element, not its children](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4995116/only-extracting-text-from-this-element-not-its-children) — Dmitry, Mar 09 '17 at 10:34

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 09 '17 at 10:31

div has two text node, you can access with .strings and use .stripped_strings to get clean data. then unpack the two node with name and online field.

In [50]:  for div in soup.findAll("div", class_="friendBlockContent", ):
    ...:      name, online = div.stripped_strings
    ...:     

In [51]: name
Out[51]: 'Bartdavy'

In [52]: online
Out[52]: 'Online'

Pyglouthon · Answer 2 · 2017-03-09T11:53:45.923

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A good way to achieve this:

for div in soup.findAll("div",class_="friendBlockContent", ):
    print(div.contents[0])

edited Mar 09 '17 at 11:53

answered Mar 09 '17 at 10:42

Pyglouthon

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 09 '17 at 10:30

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You can use the following code if you can make sure that the structure is similar to the one you posted:

for div in soup.findAll("div", class_="friendBlockContent", ):
     print(div.contents[0].strip())

answered Mar 09 '17 at 10:30

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Python beautiful soup removing extra text

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